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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A database can't do this. The email belongs to the record, not a spot on a grid. Sort it, filter it, flip it around — the field never leaves its row. In Grist, that isn't a mistake you can make.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

497 people applying to immigrate got someone else's letter: names, addresses, and the fact that they'd applied. A spreadsheet keeps a person and their email together by pure luck: two cells sharing a row, nothing binding them.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was researching spreadsheet security incidents and found an unexpected one: a column sort that leaked immigration data. In 2024, an employee at Canada's immigration department sorted a spreadsheet but only filtered 11 of its 12 columns. The email column stayed put. Everything else moved. So...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So what actually keeps data from someone? Not hiding it. In Grist, if you're not allowed to see a column, it isn't hidden from you, it's never sent to you. The server filters it out first. Nothing to un-hide, because it was never there. Blog: www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can...

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Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist

Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Case in point. In 2017, a Boeing employee emailed a spreadsheet to his spouse for help formatting it. It carried the Social Security numbers and birth dates of 36,000 people, sitting in hidden columns. Hidden, not gone. One right-click away.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Credit to Microsoft: their own Excel docs come right out and say it. "Worksheet level protection is not intended as a security feature." Honest! Okay, but 1) do all end-users know password-protection isn't a real security feature? 2) What if you actually need worksheet-level protection?

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Key point: the access rules live inside the app. Whoever owns the workflow sets them, and sees exactly what each teammate will see before sharing, with View As. No ticket to IT to change a rule buried in a database. So people stop dumping data into rogue spreadsheets.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you haven't seen my posts on this: I think Grist is best-in-slot for vibe-coding little apps. Tl;dr, it's the file format. A .grist is elegant and coherent, and copying a whole app is as easy as ctrl+v (undo with ctrl+z).

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ask someone where their data lives and they'll never say "a spreadsheet." We treat spreadsheets like office supplies, and it's a security risk. It's how a fake CEO got a Seagate employee to email him 10,000 SSNs. In Grist, data's governed down to the field. www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can...

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Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist

Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why's it two seconds in Grist when it's a whole project everywhere else? The file format. Elsewhere it's a repo + DB + storage + auth to keep in sync. In Grist the app IS the file. Copy, version, restore, done. (!!) www.getgrist.com/blog/why-is-...

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Why is Grist an ideal vibe-coding platform? Its file format. | Grist

What makes for the best vibe-coding platform? See how Grist stands out with its file format, through portability, security and simplicity.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay, one more thing about why-Grist-is-bis^ for vibe-coding: I can copy a whole app by copying one file. Two seconds and I've got the data, views, logic, permissions. Made a mess (at least) once, rolled it back like a text edit. | ^ not a typo, it's for the nerds

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Why is Grist an ideal vibe-coding platform? Its file format. | Grist

What makes for the best vibe-coding platform? See how Grist stands out with its file format, through portability, security and simplicity.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Building apps in Grist feels like magic: describe it, minutes later I've got a working, deployed tool. Why so different from other vibe-coding? The file format. It just runs. Versioning? Snapshots? Copying? Swoon. 🎶 www.getgrist.com/blog/why-is-...

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Why is Grist an ideal vibe-coding platform? Its file format. | Grist

What makes for the best vibe-coding platform? See how Grist stands out with its file format, through portability, security and simplicity.

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royal @royal.theres.life.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

I'm having so much fun with Grist. Open source spreadsheet-like database-based app builder. Use their hosted version, host your own, or get the local desktop app. youtu.be/3IZiBdDePSI @grist #Grist #getGrist #openSource #foss #spreadsheets #databases

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

With Airtable getting acquired, there's chatter about where should Airtable users should go next. Check out Grist: getgrist.com/airtable-alt... Grist's Airtable migration tool is so slick! ✨🚀 Try it at getgrist.com or self-host it on your own. #airtable #grist

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

AI agents can read a database schema, but they don't know what it means, e.g. a status of 3 means "shipped." So they guess, write wrong SQL, and lose your trust. Epoch8 fixed it with a metadata layer in Grist. Co-founder Olga shows how, live July 24, 10am ET. www.getgrist.com/grist-epoch8...

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Grist @getgrist.com · 15/06/2026

Special webinar on Thursday! Join us and Dotphoton co-founder Bruno Sanguinetti to see how they built a traceable QA system for the European Space Agency. Thursday @ 10:30AM ET/4:30PM CET Sign up here: www.getgrist.com/grist-dotpho...

Webinar header image: How Dotphoton built a fully traceable QA system for the European Space Agency.
Thursday, June 18th 2026 @ 10:30AM EDT

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"I want [x software] but built in Grist" is basically the community's product roadmap at this point. I'm just grateful they're faster than me. See what the community's been building. grist-marketing.getgrist.com/oHQcp1bG7DS8...

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Community Widgets - Grist

A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

With AI in the mix, anyone who can describe what they want can build it. Kanban. Gantt chart. Calendar. Presentation builder. And then share it with tens of thousands of people — like this full PM suite from nic01asFr.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I wanted "PowerPoint, but in Grist." The community had already built it. Grist is different from most open source projects b/c you don't have to touch the source code to contribute meaningfully. Custom widgets let you build any interface on top of Grist's data — without touching Grist itself.

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Element @element.io · 11/03/2026

The latest Signal & WhatsApp breaches targeting German & Dutch officials show the risks of using consumer apps in government. ❌ As European governments pursue digitally sovereign strategies, they should ban the use of consumer apps for government-related conversations.

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Latest Signal and WhatsApp breaches show that consumer apps have no place in government

On Monday the General Dutch ⁠Intelligence Agency (AIVD) and Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) announced a sustained Russian-backed campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp users. ...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

And if you’re thinking, “But Anais, what do entry-level employees who do not yet have domain expertise do? How do we train them?” I don’t know! 😭 That nags at me too. And again, that isn’t a new problem, but AI did just make that existing problem worse.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The people who are great at AI right now are not the most technical people I know. They're the best communicators, delegators, and strategic thinkers.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

2️⃣ AI rewards really, really good managers Working with AI well requires the same skills as being a good manager. You need to 👉 Convey context, set goals, and define "good enough." 👉 Provide constant feedback. 👉 Understand what's in their team member's head. 👉 Is not dogmatic about process.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I need someone expert enough to know what we should be doing, how, and what's good enough. Why? Because by the time I've scoped the work, provided the context, and defined what "good" looks like — if I'm talking to Claude, then I'm most of the way to a draft.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

1️⃣ AI just made the bottleneck on leadership/thinking worse For an employee to be useful now, they cannot be waiting for tasks, they have to be creating tasks. This isn’t new, but it is worse now that AI has shortened the timeline from idea ➡️ draft ➡️ publish.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“You’re hiring? How! AI is changing everything.” We’re hiring, so I’ve gotten a few questions about how I’m thinking about structuring a team in the context of AI. I have two main thoughts 🧵👇

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

📈 Founding Account Exec - Own the full sales cycle and iterate on the sales process. Must have experience selling software to IT/engineering leadership at mid-market companies. Should be comfortable with consultative, high-touch, technical sales. Full job descrip: www.getgrist.com/job-founding...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🎯 Head of Marketing - Lead content strategy and demand generation. Need experience marketing to technical, security-conscious audiences. You'll plan the content pipeline, manage a content team, and be measured on qualified inbound leads. Full job description: www.getgrist.com/job-head-of-...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We're hiring to beef up our GTM team! 💪 We're looking for a Head of Marketing and a Founding Account Executive. If you or anyone you know could be a fit, send me a message. 💐 Summary details in thread. 🧵👇 Full job descriptions here: www.getgrist.com/work-with-us/

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Grist just showed up on LinkedIn as a skill people are listing on their profiles. Apparently you can just *do* that? We didn't know, but our users did. 💐✨ The team is tickled. We're adding it to our own profiles. 🤭 Thank you to the power users who made Grist a skill worth putting on your résumé.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Here's the free activation key program FAQ for those who want more details: www.getgrist.com/enterprise-l...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And, of course, more than one Minecraft server that uses Grist for their *checks notes* project management. Before you game, you spreadsheet. 😜

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And our small users are cool 💪 A US immigration lawyer who is moving off the cloud to better protect his clients' data 🤖 A robotics student group at a university in Japan 🗺️ A community of archivists preserving old maps and almanacs 🎓 Education non-profits bringing arts to disadvantaged children

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

One of the goals is to make the full, 'enterprise' version become the default. In order for that to happen, it has to be used by a maximum number of people, while organizations who have the means to pay, do. Listen to the episode to hear the impact on other parts of the business, and our process.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I spoke with Emily Omier, host of The Business of Open Source pod, about Grist's strategy to give free activation codes for the enterprise version of Grist to individuals and small businesses. You can listen to the episode here: share.transistor.fm/s/66e720d1 More in thread 🧵👇

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Changing Your Price Anchor with Anais Concepcion | The Business of Open Source | Episode 268

There’s a new episode of The Business of Open Source today! It’s been a while. I talked with Anais Concepcion about a program she’s been testing at Grist to give free activation codes for the enterpri...

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And of course, we’re collecting feedback in a Grist document with Suggestions enabled, so you can suggest suggestions for Suggestions. grist-marketing.getgrist.com/85Wh95dnQh9f...

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Suggestions suggestions - Grist

A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We didn't solve all the problems -- yet!! Suggestions works for documents without granular permissions. We want to make this feature genuinely useful by building in the open, and testing on real use cases. This is why I am looking for crowdsourced data, or any use case we have not yet considered.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Because, um, given everything else Grist can do, we, uh, invented new technical problems. For example, how do you apply proposed changes to a spreadsheet with row- and column-level user permissions?

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Grist already had a foundation that made this possible: structured data, change tracking, and document forking. You can work on a copy, compare versions, and merge changes back into the original. Once you have that, suggestions are mostly a workflow problem, not a technical one. Emphasis on mostly.

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I am particularly proud of this feature, because the technical challenges of managing proposed changes in a spreadsheet are real. Formulas recalculate, changes cascade, dependencies get messy. Does an update to a formula include the recomputed values? How do you show this visually?

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Here's a video walkthrough to get the gist of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwO...

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Spreadsheet suggestions in Grist

YouTube video by Grist

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looking for a cool crowdsourced dataset to test a new feature we recently shipped: suggestions. It's a way to propose changes to a spreadsheet without overwriting the original – something which has existed in document editors for years, but never made it to spreadsheets. More in 🧵👇

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Anais Concepcion @anaisconce.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Went to create my bluesky account, saw username "anaisconce" was taken. What? By who? It was me. Apparently I created an account in 2024, did nothing with it, and promptly forgot. This time will be different, I swear. 🙃

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