Row Zero
Productivity
spreadsheet
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274points
218comments
#245of 3,515 in 2024
Top 7%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
21 positive, 83 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 23 critical, out of 130 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Design: 5 for, 5 againstIdea: 5 for, 4 againstPerformance: 5 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast performance on large files
From 2 comments
I'm a bit obsessed about spreadsheets and as someone who's building something similar (but not identical), it feels great to see all these next-gen spreadsheets on HN.…
airstrike on HNThis looks really promising. We generate about 1gb of financial CSV files per day for finance/accounting/audit teams and the number one response is "wow this data is great, but…
jasongill on HN
Excel-compatible formulas and hotkeys
From 1 comment
We try really hard to be Excel-compatible with all our formulas and hotkeys, etc. If there is a formula or hotkey we are missing, let us know and we will add it (usually with <…
gamegoblin on HN
Objections
No self-hosting outside Enterprise plan
From 1 comment
I'm a bit obsessed about spreadsheets and as someone who's building something similar (but not identical), it feels great to see all these next-gen spreadsheets on HN.…
airstrike on HN
Browser spreadsheets have inferior UX
From 1 comment
I'm a bit obsessed about spreadsheets and as someone who's building something similar (but not identical), it feels great to see all these next-gen spreadsheets on HN.…
airstrike on HN
Should be a local desktop app
From 1 comment
This would be a heck of a lot cooler if it was a local-first desktop application. It's still cool mind you, but it could have been a heck of a lot _more_ cool.
free_bip on HN
Compliance tiers unclear on free plan
From 1 comment
At the time of this comment (edit: since this comment, they addressed this, check the replies), on your pricing page you have "SOC 2 Type II Security Compliance" not being…
nickjj on HN
Requests
Alt keyboard shortcuts
From 1 comment
I've been the excel/vba resource at various consulting firms for 20+ years... I strongly recommend you enlist some people like me to kick the tires on your product before a more…
emeril on HN
Copy-paste formula to range
From 1 comment
I can't copy and paste formulas to more than one cell at a time? if I highlight a range of cells to copy something to, only the last cell will be populated?
emeril on HN
Write-back to databases
From 1 comment
This looks like something that I could use right away, but I wonder, since we can write Python, does this mean that we can write back to one of the native backends (e.g.…
otoburb on HN
Embeddable spreadsheets
From 1 comment
Interesting concept. Are you planning on offering an interactive embedding alternative (add the spreadsheet to an existing app) soon?
elforce002 on HN
Conditional formatting
From 1 comment
Excited to see this. I built quite a few data-rich projects / dashboards with gSheets as backend/api - or as input UI, fetched to SQLite. I'd be looking very much forward for:…
pax on HN
Questions
Is it a desktop app or local-first
From 1 comment
This would be a heck of a lot cooler if it was a local-first desktop application. It's still cool mind you, but it could have been a heck of a lot _more_ cool.
free_bip on HN
How does it compare to DuckDB and Polars
From 2 comments
We have not tried clickhouse, but are probably comparable to DuckDB. DuckDB is also backed by Apache Arrow the same as us, but is targeting database users, whereas we are…
gamegoblin on HNDatafusion, Polars, and us are all based on Arrow. Datafusion is more targeting database users, Polars is targeting Python programmers/dataframe users, and we are targeting…
gamegoblin on HN
Alternatives named
Excel
From 2 comments
As someone who used to work on Excel, awesome work and congrats on the launch! I get that it's easy to bash on VBA, but I'd argue it's what made Excel what it is today (though…
strongpigeon on HNThis looks really promising. We generate about 1gb of financial CSV files per day for finance/accounting/audit teams and the number one response is "wow this data is great, but…
jasongill on HN
Google Sheets
From 1 comment
This looks really promising. We generate about 1gb of financial CSV files per day for finance/accounting/audit teams and the number one response is "wow this data is great, but…
jasongill on HN
DuckDB
From 1 comment
We have not tried clickhouse, but are probably comparable to DuckDB. DuckDB is also backed by Apache Arrow the same as us, but is targeting database users, whereas we are…
gamegoblin on HN
Polars
From 1 comment
Datafusion, Polars, and us are all based on Arrow. Datafusion is more targeting database users, Polars is targeting Python programmers/dataframe users, and we are targeting…
gamegoblin on HN
Rows.com
From 1 comment
Honestly, I'm really excited about this next generation of spreadsheet software. - Causal.app - Rows.com - Equals.com - and at least 50 others I've found I'm waiting for someone…
skadamat on HN
Causal
From 1 comment
Honestly, I'm really excited about this next generation of spreadsheet software. - Causal.app - Rows.com - Equals.com - and at least 50 others I've found I'm waiting for someone…
skadamat on HN