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Quadratic: Spreadsheet with AI, Code, and Connections
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16 sourcesany comparisons with https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic ?
*necessary disclosure, i'm a small angel investor in it but genuinely open to see new approaches
In Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browserWe're working on it. Currently we support exporting to CSV. Here's the open issue around it https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/issues/1154 if you want to follow progress.
In Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheetDo you evaluate JS using a web worker in the browser? https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/qa/quadratic-c...
How effective is this as a sandbox, are there any know (security) tradeoffs? I was using QuickJS for my previous projects but I'm wondering if yours is a better solution (it's certainly more performant).
In Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheetI am building a technical modern spreadsheet for data analysis. Quadratic is an open-access spreadsheet with built-in Python and SQL!
https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic
In Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?Cool. Now please edit the title and remove the open-source label or make it open-source.
https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/issues/824
In Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is MultiplayerThis is not open source(!).
Edit: There's no obvious mention of open source on their website or docs (presumably because that would be legally unwise), so it's false advertising on HN for likes.
Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/issues/824
In Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is MultiplayerThe license in the repo says all rights reserved. This is not open source.
https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/main/LICENSE
Please do not call yourself open source if you are only source available. That’s false advertising.
In Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is MultiplayerCongrats on releasing this!
I had a look at the server code. Is the idea that you will just vertically scale up the server to handle the load, or is there a mechanism for scaling out horizontally?
[1] https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/main/quadratic...
In Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is MultiplayerHi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic (https://QuadraticHQ.com), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas.
Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps.
Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Product Hunt!
Quadratic is built using WebGL and Rust WASM. We built our multiplayer service from scratch in Rust to handle large amounts of data smoothly. For smooth rendering of a large grid of data, cells and text are rendered using low-level WebGL for performance. If you are interested in the technical details, check us out on GitHub (https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/)
What do you think? Can we make a spreadsheet that
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Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic (https://QuadraticHQ.com), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas.
Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps.
Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Product Hunt!
Quadratic is built using WebGL and Rust WASM. We built our multiplayer service from scratch in Rust to handle large amounts of data smoothly. For smooth rendering of a large grid of data, cells and text are rendered using low-level WebGL for performance. If you are interested in the technical details, check us out on GitHub (https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/)
What do you think? Can we make a spreadsheet that
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developers actually enjoy using?
I am glad they started brainstorming how to implement my suggestions for named cells and named ranges [1]. Having complex spreadsheets than span through infinite will be unmaintainable relying only on coordinates
[1] https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/issues/408
In Building the coordinate system for an infinite spreadsheet1000% create an issue on the repo https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/issues
In Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)Yes the bundle is huge, we have made no effort yet to optimize it. Feel free to create a PR :)
Here is how we manage cell dependencies https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/main/src/grid/...
In Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)
Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic (https://QuadraticHQ.com), an open-source spreadsheet application that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), AI Prompts, and classic Formulas.
Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps.
Our vision is to build a place where your team can collaborate on data analysis. You can write Python, AI Prompts, and Formulas in one spreadsheet feeding each other data and updating automatically.
Quadratic is built using WebGL and Rust WASM. To render a large grid of cells smoothly, we tile the spreadsheet similar to google maps. If you are interested in the technical details, check us out on GitHub (https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/)
You can use AI to help you wri
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te Python and then run the code directly in Quadratic. Then, we feed the result back to the AI model so it can follow along, help you debug, and modify your existing code.
AI can also be used to directly generate data onto the sheet with prompts. It knows the context of what's on the sheet and how the data it's inserting fits in. Try it out.
SQL is coming soon... stay tuned!
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