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Member since: Mar 2011Deals bought: 338Posted: Sep 16, 2022

Useful service. Unusable limits.

Why am I only the second reviewer?

* SimpleX works. It works well from what I've seen.
* Limits really are as small as they appear.
* I bought Tier 2. I could only analyze 3,000 rows of a 12,000+ row spreadsheet. Yes, that's what the Tier says it can do. But really? 25 years ago I was analyzing spreadsheets with more rows of text than that. Not with the power of SimpleX, but not with the limits.
* With this one analysis, I used 3,000 of my 5,000 monthly credits.
* So, anyone who wants to use SimpleX for more than a hobby -- even the Tier 3 limits are unrealisting.
* Here's the thing: SimpleX seems to do what it's supposed to do, but is VERY limited on credits. The company is touting SimpleX as the alternative to spreadsheets for text analysis. And that's great! But if you were analyzing numbers, would you be happy if you were limited to 3,000 rows of data per spreadsheet? Or 5,000 rows of data per month, total?

> Something has to change for SimpleX to be usable. If compute power is the bottleneck, maybe the answer is to offer a Windows/Linux/Mac app with no limits instead of a cloud service. That would get a 5+ taco rating from me.

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Stephane_SimpleX

Sep 16, 2022

Your desktop app suggestion is interesting tough.
But the bootleneck here is not the app but rather...

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