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0 pointshk__29y ago0 comments

> GoogleDocs hasn't changed appreciably in the ten plus years I've been using it

Google Docs went publicly available in 2007 (= 9 years ago); how can you have been a user for 10+ years?

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douche9y ago· 2 in thread

I guess it's only been just under 10 years[1], rather than 10 plus.

[1] http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-announces-goo...

kwijibob9y ago

Just scan through the google docs blog. You'll see lots of steady iteration of new features. It gets better and better.

I use it daily and also find the speed and reliability excellent. It feels like they are making great strides behind the scenes in scalability.

I have written 4000 words fully references postgrad essays in google docs.

Google spreadsheets does all my organisations budgeting and planning systems.

beachstartup9y ago

> Google spreadsheets does all my organisations budgeting and planning systems.

i suspect this is the #1 use case.... roll-your-own centralized shared ERP with version tracking, permissions, users, etc. it's what we use too, but as we grow we're slowly replacing individual spreadsheets with real/saas tools, but then we're just making new ones for software that doesn't exist yet, so it continues to grow overall.

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