CubeWeaver
Productivity
multidimensional spreadsheet
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Design: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for multidimensional data compared with Excel
From 2 comments
Congrats. Nice to see some innovation in the spreadsheet space. Often you need 3D (or more) data and excel sucks as you need to create a pivot table every time. R is good but…
quickthrower2 on HNThis looks tremendously useful; it's easy to imagine its adoption taking off given the obvious benefits over traditional spreadsheets. Thanks for sharing! And good luck! :)
chrisweekly on HN
Fills a gap similar to Lotus Improv and Quantrix
From 1 comment
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
qubex on HN
Objections
Web-based and cloud hosting is unacceptable for sensitive data
From 3 comments
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
qubex on HNUhm, no. I assure you the powers-that-be in my firm would totally lose their marbles if highly reserved data were crossing out into some web-app hosted who-knows-where and…
qubex on HNCall me quaint, but I despise software hosted in a cloud and/or accessed through a browser.
qubex on HN
Captcha during registration was hard to pass
From 1 comment
It took me 5 tries to pass your register captcha. Maybe you should try something more human friendly.
kevincox on HN
Requests
On-premise installation for team trials
From 1 comment
I like it, but I want to be able to use it with my team before committing and that requires on premise.
m1sta_ on HN
Fully normalized relational structure option
From 1 comment
The masterdata is stored as JSON to avoid creating/dropping columns and tables as list/columns are added and removed. But an option to have a fully normalized relational…
egeria_planning on HN
Questions
Whether it uses WebAssembly
From 1 comment
Does anyone know if it uses web assembly?
xiaodai on HN
Relation to the earlier Egeria submission
From 1 comment
I can see it was previously submitted as Egeria, can you share some info how it has evolved into the new product?
warpech on HN
Alternatives named
Quantrix Modeller and Quantrix Qloud
From 2 comments
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
qubex on HNHave you had a chance to check out Quantrix Qloud? Its basically Modeller in the browser, with reduced functionality, though the team is working to expand the feature set each…
dd82 on HN
Lotus Improv
From 1 comment
For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
qubex on HN
Mint Data
From 1 comment
We use "nested spreadsheets" that can live in any cell, and combined with aggregate functions like GROUP_BY() we're able to get this behavior. Would be genuinely curious -- would…
denster on HN
IBM Cognos TM1 / cloudy TM1
From 1 comment
cloudy tm1 is quite affordable now, what is the winning point?
silw001 on HN