Anais Concepcion

Here's the free activation key program FAQ for those who want more details: www.getgrist.com/enterprise-l...

And, of course, more than one Minecraft server that uses Grist for their *checks notes* project management.

Before you game, you spreadsheet. 😜

And our small users are cool

💪 A US immigration lawyer who is moving off the cloud to better protect his clients' data

🤖 A robotics student group at a university in Japan

🗺️ A community of archivists preserving old maps and almanacs

🎓 Education non-profits bringing arts to disadvantaged children

One of the goals is to make the full, 'enterprise' version become the default. In order for that to happen, it has to be used by a maximum number of people, while organizations who have the means to pay, do.

Listen to the episode to hear the impact on other parts of the business, and our process.

Changing Your Price Anchor with Anais Concepcion | The Business of Open Source | Episode 268 There’s a new episode of The Business of Open Source today! It’s been a while. I talked with Anais Concepcion about a program she’s been testing at Grist to give free activation codes for the enterpri...

I spoke with Emily Omier, host of The Business of Open Source pod, about Grist's strategy to give free activation codes for the enterprise version of Grist to individuals and small businesses.

You can listen to the episode here: share.transistor.fm/s/66e720d1

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Suggestions suggestions - Grist A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

And of course, we’re collecting feedback in a Grist document with Suggestions enabled, so you can suggest suggestions for Suggestions. grist-marketing.getgrist.com/85Wh95dnQh9f...

We didn't solve all the problems -- yet!! Suggestions works for documents without granular permissions. We want to make this feature genuinely useful by building in the open, and testing on real use cases. This is why I am looking for crowdsourced data, or any use case we have not yet considered.

Because, um, given everything else Grist can do, we, uh, invented new technical problems. For example, how do you apply proposed changes to a spreadsheet with row- and column-level user permissions?

Grist already had a foundation that made this possible: structured data, change tracking, and document forking. You can work on a copy, compare versions, and merge changes back into the original. Once you have that, suggestions are mostly a workflow problem, not a technical one. Emphasis on mostly.

I am particularly proud of this feature, because the technical challenges of managing proposed changes in a spreadsheet are real. Formulas recalculate, changes cascade, dependencies get messy. Does an update to a formula include the recomputed values? How do you show this visually?

YouTube video by Grist Spreadsheet suggestions in Grist

Here's a video walkthrough to get the gist of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwO...

Looking for a cool crowdsourced dataset to test a new feature we recently shipped: suggestions. It's a way to propose changes to a spreadsheet without overwriting the original – something which has existed in document editors for years, but never made it to spreadsheets. More in 🧵👇

Went to create my bluesky account, saw username "anaisconce" was taken. What? By who?

It was me. Apparently I created an account in 2024, did nothing with it, and promptly forgot.

This time will be different, I swear. 🙃