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Comment on Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?

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I was asked for a web app for two business users to be able to create arbitrary/flexible data driven rule sets through a custom UI. I quickly gave them a "temporary" Django admin app where they could upload Excel spreadsheets representing the actual data use cases they had. They were ecstatic and never needed the fuller system they specced.

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