I comment this on many of their LinkedIn posts. I think they've blocked me at this point

I'm actually pretty excited to have another product to try to motivate friends and family to leave Google behind. Maybe this will do it.

I’ve managed entirely on Google Sheets for years now. And I was a really big fan of Excel. It was never viable for me to rely on Windows to be everywhere I need to be, and the functionality gap closed steadily over the years to the point where the benefits of it being on the web now overwhelm the feature gap. Being free helps too, especially as Excel has gone through various pricing and bundling contortions over the years. Someone might tell me here that it’s now completely free but can I really be blamed for tuning out Microsoft years ago?

Genuinely what do you need in excel you can’t do anywhere else? For me sheets are just glorified visual data storage. If I need to do complex stuff I can probably do it faster in polars or pandas than I can in excel

There's also Collabora Office

Or searchable email bodies...on my phone. Which is where I'd need it most.

Real-time collaboration is fairly useful, you can have a videocall or meeting while discussing changes to a document and making them together

It is technically impossible at the moment to keep your emails end-to-end encrypted and not have to use a bridge for your client of choice. It will only be possible if your client of choice partners with Proton to integrate them, or if a standard for e2e encrypted emails pops up and both Proton and your client adopt it.

90% of users probably just need a glorified table with SUM

It’s not competing with word, it’s competing with Google Sheets.

I used to think they would Excel.