CSVshare
Data
data sharing and search
SHOW HN2017
50points
20comments
#796of 2,242 in 2017
Top 36%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful simple tool for sharing CSV data
From 3 comments
The idea is great. The internet needs a simple and useful tool like that. However, it fails when I try to browse a .txt file (which is CSV, believe me) based just on its…
fiatjaf on HN* Faster & easier to upload * Anyone can search/query like a database * Data can be downloaded in CSV or JSON format, manually or via API Hope that helps!
jasoncrawford on HNVery nice. I made a system to search CSV files at http://gosharedata.com but I it is only available as a download and not online, so I like CSVShare, very cool!
zubairq on HN
Faceted search and JSON output are appealing
From 1 comment
I can download a google spreadsheet to CSV also. I agree that you are faster to setup to upload a csv For some reason you can't upload directly on a google sheets website but you…
zitterbewegung on HN
Objections
Slow with large files, such as 50K rows
From 2 comments
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HNThe idea is great. The internet needs a simple and useful tool like that. However, it fails when I try to browse a .txt file (which is CSV, believe me) based just on its…
fiatjaf on HN
Does not accept gzip-compressed or .txt uploads
From 2 comments
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HNThe idea is great. The internet needs a simple and useful tool like that. However, it fails when I try to browse a .txt file (which is CSV, believe me) based just on its…
fiatjaf on HN
Data privacy: uploads are public or unlisted and kept on the site
From 2 comments
I assume this is meant for use of none sensitive data? What do you do with the uploaded files?
jordache on HNI assume you didn't ask that question for images posted to imgur, plaintext files posted on pastebin or comments posted on HN.
fiatjaf on HN
Dates in time columns are altered on download
From 1 comment
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HN
Requests
Support gzip-compressed CSV uploads
From 1 comment
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HN
Show file size or row count on detail page
From 1 comment
Is there anyway you could put exported file size or total number of rows on the detail page (for those interested in analyzing medium-large sets).
jonbaer on HN
Add an API for creating datasets
From 1 comment
Very nice Jason. I know I'm always bugging you about Fieldbook APIs (this is Nate K again), but is there an api for creation here? I have a super-duper-cool use case in mind but…
ludicast on HN
Keep original filenames on download
From 1 comment
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HN
Questions
What happens to uploaded data and is it public?
From 2 comments
I assume this is meant for use of none sensitive data? What do you do with the uploaded files?
jordache on HNI can download a google spreadsheet to CSV also. I agree that you are faster to setup to upload a csv For some reason you can't upload directly on a google sheets website but you…
zitterbewegung on HN
Why use this over Google Sheets?
From 1 comment
I wonder why I would use this when I can use google spreadsheets?
shinryuu on HN
Is it suitable for enterprises?
From 1 comment
Why do you think it would work for enterprises?
siddharthdeswal on HN
Alternatives named
Google Sheets
From 2 comments
I wonder why I would use this when I can use google spreadsheets?
shinryuu on HNI can download a google spreadsheet to CSV also. I agree that you are faster to setup to upload a csv For some reason you can't upload directly on a google sheets website but you…
zitterbewegung on HN
Excel
From 1 comment
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames…
marklit on HN
csvtotable
From 1 comment
Cool project, I had a same issue like author mentioned with sharing csv files in Google sheets so recently I made a utility to convert csv files to HTML table -…
v512 on HN