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Hi! I created this spreadsheet using Google Sheets + Python using Neptyne[0]. Path coordinates are imported from the NASA catalog of eclipses for the 21st century. If you make a co…

tl;dr: we built a Google Sheets extension that lets you run Python in your spreadsheet. Hello HN! Douwe and Jack here - we’re the founders of Neptyne, a Python powered spreadsheet.…

Co-founder of Neptyne here! We'd be happy to answer questions about how this works, and of course welcome any and all feedback.

All excellent points. Right now, Neptyne works much like a Google doc in that it's private to you but is easily sharable to pretty much anyone. If our users are looking for it, a s…

Thanks! We've talked to a lot of people in hedge funds and investments, and you're right that a lot of them care about a self-hosted solution. This is definitely on our radar as a …

It is true that the people who are most productive today in Neptyne are those who are pretty familiar with Python. Part of our long-term goal is to make this kind of programming mo…

(Neptyne cofounder here) That does sound like a fitting use case. Technically speaking it should be OK with 70k rows, but we've got some optimizations that might need to go out bef…

(Neptyne cofounder here) All great tools to be sure! I am a huge fan of numpy and pandas especially. For plotting in Neptyne I usually opt for plotly over matplotlib/seaborn. Agree…

Hmm, sorry about that broken flow. We added some last-minute things today to get the skip-signup thing working that might have some bugs :) If you go straight to https://neptyne.co…

(cofounder of Neptyne here) Equals is a great product -- I'm a fan! The main technical difference between us and something like Equals is that we give you a full Python environment…

We just added a button to let you skip the sign-in for the tutorial: https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial

(Neptyne cofounder here) That's probably something we should dig more into in the docs, yeah. Neptyne works like a ipython/Jupyter notebook in that everything is in scope all the t…

(cofounder of Neptyne here) We see Apps Script is a strong signal that this kind of thing is useful. Apps Script adds so much power to Sheets but it could be so much easier to use.…

Thanks for calling that out! We made it possible to skip the sign-up to try our tutorial. https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial should now let you do that

It should work. I haven't tried requests-cache exactly but in Neptyne you're running with a Jupyter kernel in a Docker container backend, so you do have a filesystem to work with. …

We hear you and we do want to make it possible to try the tutorial without signing up for an account. We're working on making that possible shortly. I'll update here when that's po…

We don't have a self-host option at the moment. We wanted to build Neptyne as a collaborative platform first, where users could build together and share their work. I wouldn't rule…

Thank you! I do hope you find it useful. To answer your question, it's cloud-only -- we wanted to build Neptyne as a collaborative platform where teams of programmers and non-progr…

(cofounder of Neptyne here) Thanks for mentioning this! I came across Resolve One recently in another HN thread. Were you a user yourself? What did you think of it?

(co-founder of Neptyne here) Our biggest challenge as you say is definitely the fact that lots of users will be entrenched in Excel. Our goal right now is to appeal not to those wh…

Thanks, appreciate the feedback! You make good points. We'll have a look at how we can improve the landing page.

(co-founder of Neptyne here) With Google Sheets you get a flavor of JS called Apps Script, a flavor of JS with some limitations. Some ways in which our use of Python differ are: - …

(co-founder of Neptyne here) You're spot on in that, if you're a Python developer, you're probably using Jupyter and/or Streamlit, gradio, etc. and spreadsheet users are most comfo…