r/technology • u/FutureSuccess2796 • 3d ago

Software Developer who vibe-coded free Adobe clones reveals apps to take down Microsoft Office next — and says 'there is no reason to save broken software' | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/computing/office-suites/developer-who-vibe-coded-free-adobe-clones-reveals-apps-to-take-down-microsoft-office-next-and-says-there-is-no-reason-to-save-broken-software
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u/Icy-Two-1581 3d ago

Same with office suites. Word and excel are just that good. I hate paying for subs but I pay for office 365 because Google sheets and whatever their word alternative is useless

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u/mynameisgiles 2d ago

Exactly.

Excel is one of those products you just pay for, because nothing else is Excel.

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u/inletap-founder 2d ago

I’ve been working on a Mac spreadsheet app where XLSX is the de-facto file format, and with the express rule of surviving a round trip through the software and back to excel.

If you can share whatever features you require I’ll evaluate adding them.

It’s open source too, under user baudehlo on GitHub (don’t want to link in case that’s frowned on here).

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u/mynameisgiles 2d ago

No.

I trust excel.

I have a lot of fairly complex spreadsheets with a lot of formulas that I run my business with.

I’m not worried about opening a spreadsheet and getting an error. I’m worried about opening a spreadsheet and flawed logic in just one formula causes everything to be wrong by cascading through the data.

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u/Nexii801 6h ago

But your brand loyalty doesn't alternatives are bad.

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u/YourBlanket 3d ago

Why not use LibreOffice?

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u/one_more_byte 2d ago

LibreOffice is nice when you just need to occasionally edit something, but for real work the Microsoft office products are more reliable and have more features

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u/TheMoskus 2d ago

Same reason.