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Posted: Mar 29, 2025

Not having the same experience as others

Honestly, my first impressions of this app are incredibly disappointing. It's tempting to use some unflattering language to describe it so far. The disappointment is both on browser and the iOS mobile app.

Sorting doesn't work as intended. I've created a table for shared expenses between me and my wife and set to sort on the date column in descending order. Entries from the current date get put at the BOTTOM of the table. It seems like current date entries don't float up to the top until the following day or something. It's SOO weird.

On top of this, the performance on my 650-row table is horrendous. I also struggled to import data from Coda (CSV) as it seemed unable to recognize the US date format. What I mean by this is that if the day was 12 or under, it interpreted it as a month. If the day was 13+ it correctly identified the format as US. After importing I had two different date formats, so there was no way get everything into one consistent format. I eventually got it, but it was way more trouble than it was worth.

Oh, and good luck creating a formula. Stackby's attempt to auto-complete formulas based on their function library or fields in your table f*s everything up (stuff disappears, gets overwritten, loses parenthesis, etc.). Your best bet is to avoid the auto-complete and type the whole formula out yourself and use trial and error until you get it right.

It's got SOOO much potential. My intention is to try to replace my $12/month Coda.io subscription with a one-time LTD, but I'm having a hard time justifying the change when it's been such a horrendously a frustrating first 2-weeks.

Founder Team
Rachit_Stackby

Rachit_Stackby

Mar 30, 2025

Hey there,

Addressing all the issues here one by one:

1. Sorting feature: Sort feature in Stackby is not an 'auto-sort' feature. You will have to apply sort once in a while to apply the sort on those columns. The auto sort feature is in the roadmap also it can get confusing for a lot of users if the records get auto sorted and they can't find where the records are in the table.

2. Our users are successfully using 50K records in a table easily. How many columns do you have in that CSV file? I would like to work with you on this and see what issues there are.

3. For the US date format, can you share the format here? Let me get it checked from my team and see if there are issues here. We will fix it immediately if there is.

4. We have a brand new formula editor coming very soon. If you're adding a complex formula, best is to write it on Notes and then add it to the formula editor in Stackby. If you can share the formula here, we can reformat it for you properly and share it here.

We're improving each day. I'm not sure if we got a support request from you. We would have appreciated if you shared these issues with us and we would have come back with a reply to fix them.

Anyway, I've passed some of these issues to the team and we will improve it. I genuinely want to work with you and fix them, if you can reach out to us on support@stackby.com or on support chat and then move this into a 5-taco review.

Thanks!
Rachit

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