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yawnxyz
would be nice if they open sourced some of the code!
IronWolve
My work uses smartsheet and its widely popular. Wonder why spreadsheet.com couldn't compete.
timeagain
Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventing, reporting, and product management tools that are baked right into the spreadsheet. It’s like a crappier (but vastly cheaper) version of salesforce, qualtrix, asana, and tableau all in one beautiful data model.

I say this as a former employee.

Tagbert
We use Smartsheet for the project planning feature. I even wrote a utility to take a Smartsheet excel export and generate a more polished Gantt chart for presentation.
ukuina
> despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth.

VC strikes again!

PufPufPuf
It's no longer about building a sustainable company, it's about building a fast-growing promise of market dominance.
presentation
It’s never been about building a sustainable company with VC
rekabis
>VC

Funny how that is quickly becoming backronymned to Vampire Capitalism.

lucas03
decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.
koolhead17
What will happen to the codebase and amazing product they have built?
amadeuspagel
I guess a good dotcom isn't everything. Or maybe $category.com isn't a good dotcom, at least when $category has established competitors.
ianschmitz
It’s sad that so many tech companies are pressured to grow or die. It feels rare to see folks build stable, healthy growth businesses these days. Gotta burn through all the cash and get that next round of funding!