Superintendent
Data
csv processing
SHOW HN2022
Superintendent
An app to split CSV into multiple files to avoid Excel's 1M row limit
superintendent.appHow HN took it
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 16 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.63.
Idea: 0 for, 13 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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Objections
Yearly fee is unjustified for a basic utility that free tools handle
From 3 comments
Why is this a yearly cost? I don’t understand. There’s already open source utilities [0] for users who aren’t proficient in Unix commands. If anything this should be the…
prepend on HNFirst, every accountant I know has a lot of IT skills. Second, why do accountants need to pay a yearly fee for such a basic utility?
prepend on HNI think $40 a year just for the split feature is a little too much. However, adding more useful features for manipulating CSV files would probably change my mind about it. For…
jcbages on HN
Free command-line tools like split and xsv already do this
From 3 comments
The video (why?) doesn’t load for me, so I can’t check features, but what’s wrong with split and csplit?…
Someone on HNTL/DR: xsv is probably what you want, or maybe zsv and/or awk awk can do this super easily. Here's an example snippet that not only shards, but compresses your shards. ``` (NR -…
mattewong on HNhttps://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html
tryithard on HN
Target users rarely have files over 1M rows
From 2 comments
The target users don't have that amount of data believe me I worked as an accountant
ingenika on HNI work as a dev _for_ the accountants. We have that amount of data.
hackarama on HN
Demo video is a poor way to explain the product
From 1 comment
My “Why?” isn’t about the video not playing, it’s about using a video as almost the sole way to figure out what the product does.
Someone on HN
Requests
Add filter and sort features
From 1 comment
I'm thinking about adding the filter/sort feature soon-ish. Just curious: what kind of features (apart from filter/sort) might change your mind about paying for this app?
tanin on HN
Add CSV manipulation features beyond splitting
From 1 comment
I think $40 a year just for the split feature is a little too much. However, adding more useful features for manipulating CSV files would probably change my mind about it. For…
jcbages on HN
Add screenshots to explain the product
From 1 comment
Great point. I suppose I could show some screenshots as well.
tanin on HN
Questions
Why not use existing command-line tools
From 2 comments
The video (why?) doesn’t load for me, so I can’t check features, but what’s wrong with split and csplit?…
Someone on HNhttps://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html
tryithard on HN
Alternatives named
Unix split and csplit
From 2 comments
The video (why?) doesn’t load for me, so I can’t check features, but what’s wrong with split and csplit?…
Someone on HNhttps://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html
tryithard on HN
xsv and zsv
From 1 comment
TL/DR: xsv is probably what you want, or maybe zsv and/or awk awk can do this super easily. Here's an example snippet that not only shards, but compresses your shards. ``` (NR -…
mattewong on HN
LargeFileSplitter
From 1 comment
Why is this a yearly cost? I don’t understand. There’s already open source utilities [0] for users who aren’t proficient in Unix commands. If anything this should be the…
prepend on HN
MS Access and PowerPivot
From 2 comments
I got smacked with this just last week. My answer was just import into MS Access. Note: if you're pulling in a lot of S3 list_objects_v2() data, and have some honking big object…
smitty1e on HNThe answer is actually PowerPivot. Access you can do a few GB, but with PowerPivot, you can do a billion or more rows. Don’t expect any insane performance though.
_boffin_ on HN