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When I started building HTML Table Exporter, I thought table extraction would be straightforward. Iterate through rows, grab cell text, done. Then I encountered real-world tables. Wikipedia tables tha
A CSV is a CSV, right? Not when your user is a data analyst in Germany opening the file in Excel. Or a Python developer loading it into Pandas. Or a data engineer piping it into BigQuery. Each workflo
When I started building HTML Table Exporter, the default choice would have been React or Vue. Maybe TypeScript for safety. I went with vanilla JavaScript instead. No framework. No build step for the c
I built HTML Table Exporter for data analysts who need to pull tables from websites into spreadsheets. That's still the core use case. But users have shown me angles I never anticipated. The Use Cases
"Think bigger." "That market is too small." "Why would someone pay for that when they can just copy-paste?" I heard variations of this when I started building HTML Table Exporter. A Chrome extension t
When you're building alone, your tools matter more. There's no teammate to cover your weaknesses. No one to bounce ideas off at the whiteboard. Here's the minimal stack I use to build HTML Table Exporter—and the workflows that keep me from spinning i...
