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AlphaSheets | San Francisco, CA | Frontend Developer (React) | Full-time (contractors welcome too) | Remote or onsite What we're building: Collaborative, programmable spreadsheets.…

AlphaSheets | San Francisco, CA | Frontend Developer (React) | Full-time (contractors welcome too) | Remote or onsite What we're building: Collaborative, programmable spreadsheets.…

AlphaSheets | San Francisco, CA | Frontend Developer (React) | Full-time (contractors welcome too) | Remote or onsite What we're building: Collaborative, programmable spreadsheets.…

Yes, it does. Live updating already works (i.e. if A and B have a sheet open and A updates it, B sees the updates at the same time as A). And you can share links with others. These…

We're actually built on top of fin-hypergrid, which we chose for its speed. We're handling all the reactivity in the backend.

We're taking that as a compliment. From talking to users, a key piece of feedback we've gotten was that the experience of using AlphaSheets has to be really similar to that of usin…

xlwings doesn't let you write Python code straight in the cells and have it immediately Just Work. It requires you to install a plugin and write commands in a separate file to exec…

Yes, the computations are all done server-side, which lets us parallelize big computations. It also keeps our thorny evaluation logic crisp and maintainable, because Haskell. =)

Thanks. :)

Hey! I'm Alex, a cofounder of AlphaSheets. The three gifs on the page link to spreadsheets that you can play around with, with a majority of features already functional. Is that no…