r/excel • u/reptiloide666 • Aug 07 '24

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I'm building a mobile app to help users learn spreadsheets (excel and google sheets) through gamified experience. It's free. Available for both Android & iOS. Do you think it might be useful for you?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nuum-learn-spreadsheets/id6502941256
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nuum.tech.app&pli=1

I am looking for users feedback: what you'd like to learn, what you like in the app, what you don't like, any feedback is much appreciated! Thank you!

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u/small_trunks 1575 Aug 07 '24

How many real excel workbooks are going to be written on a phone?

Sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me...

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 07 '24

Thank you for you comment! Yeah, the platform limitation is a valid concern here. We understand we cannot replicate the entire Excel experience here so we are focused on more granular things that could be learned through a mobile app experience.

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u/small_trunks 1575 Aug 07 '24

Good luck.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '24

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 07 '24

thanks for your feedback! The Copilot is indeed a useful tool. This app serves a slightly different purpose: an alternative to articles, video courses with a structured content

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u/LHnf23 Aug 07 '24

Having had a play on it for a bit, and despite using excel on a daily basis (mainly for the same tasks meaning I’m good at what I know & useless at the rest), the wording and complexity goes at a pace which seems to be quite quick to reference new functions and questions you on them without them being properly ‘introduced’

Also, I spotted a bug asking the length of cell B2 which had ‘hello’ written in it, but the options were ‘2’, ‘6’, ‘0’ & ‘error’. The explanation showed that it should read ‘hello!’

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 08 '24

thank you for the feedback! Let me clarify something

the wording and complexity goes at a pace which seems to be quite quick to reference new functions and questions you on them without them being properly ‘introduced’

does it mean that you would prefer function theory/example sections to be more detailed?

And thanks for pointing out a bug! Fixing it

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u/ShinDragon 2 Aug 07 '24

I'll be trying it out

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 07 '24

Nice! Would be happy to hear from you!

Also launching a channel on Discord to discuss users' needs and what to build next. Feel free to join and share your feedback there too
https://discord.gg/MkqQYbMf

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u/usersnamesallused 16 Aug 07 '24

I hate it when a learning app is out of date with the intended application. How are you planning on keeping up to date on feature and ui updates?

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 07 '24

It's a valid point, thanks. At this moment we have some custom widgets that represent tables in a platform agnostic way, so they are fine. We do also have a screen recording demos that are might become outdated at some point. In order to address it we're subscribed to Excel/Spreadsheet updates and going to update our materials if needed as soon as possible

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u/usersnamesallused 16 Aug 07 '24

Others have suggested using the actual application as the platform. It may be more efficient to just write an add-in to Excel that guides the users through actions and responds to answers and values in training workbooks.

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u/reptiloide666 Aug 07 '24

We used a generic platform so that we are not excel/gsheets specific, we want to cover both. Anyways, we should consider it since it's something frequently asked by users :) thank you!