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I can only speak for my use case, but I've heard similar things from other people, so I don't believe it's only me. I agree the overlap is small between those groups, but I think it's pretty painful when it does occur.

I've done quite a bit of freelance web development, mostly in the telecoms and infrastructure sectors, and there was often a requirement to integrate with a third party. This "integration" almost always took the form of periodically receiving spreadsheets from them, manually importing them into our database, and then also handling the periodic updates. And the apps I was building only needed to query a few rows each day! Sometimes they'd eventually create an API, but most said they couldn't or wouldn't due to time or complexity. Sheetlabs is my attempt at removing some of these barriers.

Anyway, that was _my_ itch, and this is how I'm scratching it!




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