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If you want to do it properly you need to setup an inter-company loan agreement, transfer pricing, you need accountants and tax specialists for both UK and US, ... so the costs wil…

Probably building our calculation engine - you can read more about it here https://www.causal.app/blog/scaling Rendering grids/tables/charts in the browser is also quite tricky if …

It did make the acquisition process a bit more difficult + US lawyers are more expensive than UK/German lawyers. It's still worth it IMO given how much easier fundraising gets.

We bet quite early on AG-Grid and it got us very far. We’ve probably built one of the most customised AG-Grid tables out there. I haven’t checked out Tanstack table much but given …

Thanks @dang!

With our current growth rate and no additional hiring we would’ve been profitable in less than 12 months :)

Thanks to the HN community! Everything started with this post from over 5 years ago [1] which gave Taimur and me enough conviction to quit our jobs to work on Causal full-time. A f…

Founder of Causal here. We’re happy to give free access for personal use. You can email me lukas (at) causal.app

Does this generate type-safe code? We ended up using https://www.hypertune.com/ to solve that problem.

IMO the better paradigm is coming from enterprise applications like Anaplan. Cells are not the right abstraction to work with numbers. Most of the time you work with multi-dimensio…

We built it to find potential issues with your spreadsheet. 80% of Excel models have bugs: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

It'd be great if you can share the model once you've built it. We can add it to our template library :)

We have released a few bits actually! https://causal.app/blog/scaling is one of my favourites (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000400 )

IMO this still doesn't change the fact that Excel is a 2D grid. Dealing with multi-dimensional data will always be tricky in that paradigm. Also, you'll still have cell references,…

Great question! Quite often in financial models, you're dealing with "dimensions" (e.g. your revenue is broken down by product, geography, and time). To model this in Excel you hav…

Great stuff! I celebrate everyone who gets the world off SFDC. We recently started using https://attio.com/ — how do you guys compare?