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What is MINTDATA™?
MINTDATA™ is a modern way to create and deliver web applications.
A spreadsheet is used to define application logic instead of code.
The applications are elegant, full-featured and fast to create.
The applications run on these platforms:
- Mobile phones — iOS and Android
- Tablets — iPad & Android
- The desktop web
👉 is not Excel or Google Sheets under the covers.
👉 is backward compatible with Excel and Google Sheets
Why a spreadsheet?
A new kind of spreadsheet
MINTDATA™ represents a new metaphor -- using a spreadsheet to define application logic. Unlike Excel and Google Sheets, MINTDATA™ is a new kind of spreadsheet -- one that is geared toward creating applications instead of crunching numbers.✓ Backward compatible with today's spreadsheets
And while MINTDATA™ is backward compatible by using the spreadsheet functions you're used to, it also has a number of features that make it possible to author full-featured applications for the first time.
😱 Spreadsheets cause chaos. Why would I want more spreadsheets?
MINTDATA™ provides a spreadsheet interface to define web applications. The web applications are then shared with colleagues to improve business processes and how work gets done.Compare this to traditional spreadsheets. They create chaos -- no single source of truth, sharing over email and cloud drives, no versioning, and no explicit security or access control.
On MINTDATA™, the opposite is true -- MintData applications use a single source of truth for data, are centrally managed, version controlled, and integrate with existing best practices for collaboration, development, and innovation.
How does MINTDATA™ work?
On MINTDATA™, a Design contains a spreadsheet to define application logic, a Surface to define the visual appearance, and behavioral links between the two.
Once a Design is published, the resulting Application is shared with your end-users -- colleagues, customers, partners, and friends.
They see only the resulting Application, which works with a single source of truth for data. That source can be your company database, a web API, or MINTDATA Bases, which is a built-in mechanism for storing data.
👉 It can be your company's existing databases & enterprise systems
👉 It can optionally be MINTDATA™ Bases, which provide a simple & fast way to store and manage data
The three parts
MINTDATA™ consists of 3 parts:- MINTDATA™ Designer: to define the appearance and behavior of applications, called Designs
- MINTDATA™ Published Applications: the act of taking a Design and publishing it for use by your end-users (colleagues, customers, partners & friends)
- MINTDATA™ Workspace: a place to manage designs and collaboration
Get Started
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To get started, check out Getting Started to learn your way around the MINTDATA™, Core Mechanics to see how things work, and Work with data for how to read/write data to/from various sources.
Getting Started
A quick tour for how to use the MINTDATA™
Core Mechanics
A walkthrough of how to create things on MINTDATA™
Reference
To see the full list of functions, components and blocks you can use.
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