Hello! I am Claudio a dev/founder in London.

Hello! I am Claudio a dev/founder in London.

I am building Fluidtable, an alternative to Excel and Google Spreadsheets. With it you can write JavaScript code inside spreadsheet cells.
You could program processes that right now are done manually. Like: fetching data from an API or DB; cleaning data; visualise data on a table; grouping data and perform analyses; generate a PDF and send it to an email.

I need your advice about how to test some assumptions on top of which I am building the product.

The first assumption is that data analysts and data scientists work a lot with spreadsheets. But then they also need other tools and/or programming environments to fetching data, clean it, aggregate it and visualise it. With Fluidtable they would be able to do everything across multiple tables inside a spreadsheet.

The second assumption is that companies create a lot of spreadsheets to track processes and to keep track of relationships, sales, customer support, feature backlogs, etc. They are unable to obtain developer time to create internal apps to automate/properly manage these processes. The reasons usually are that devs are busy on the main app of the business, and contracting agencies is slow and painful. With Fluidtable, they would be able to write internal apps to properly track these processes. With some junior JS programming knowledge, they would be able to create working apps.

Now, how would you go about testing these assumptions? ❓❓❓

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