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Yeah we think there is an opportunity to really open up the xlsx runtime. There are a lot of smart people in the world - and we're excited for them to build on top.

we have a CLI and we'll launch SDKs. Every aspect of Nobie will be scriptable. Love that your head is in the same place.

we've fixed a bunch of this which will be out in the next release.

it's a bit hidden and not fully featured. But we do support table references. You can run cmd + T (or search for create table in the cmd +k menu) on a range to display the create t…

windows is coming

yeah that’s how we think about it desktop apps are so back

Also, we've designed the product so it costs us zero dollars to run :) having zero marginal cost is nice and allows us to do things that others can't

agents do a lot better when they can "run" the excel workbook and understand the impact of inputs, and how pixels look when layering on things like conditional formats.

openpyxl is great at what it does, but it’s a file-format library rather than a workbook runtime. It can insert columns, for example, but it doesn’t maintain dependencies such as f…

similar vibes, maybe less drama? lol

built from the ground up in rust, with the aim that it's much faster than Excel. It supports all Excel formulas.

let us know your thoughts. we're shipping updates every day

glad you like em :) we're going for a gritty, off-world museum vibes. Generated with midjourney.

via the CLI, you could probz stream values and formatting out of the sheet, although we probably need to add a few things to ensure you can reach into every nook and cranny of the …

Fair question. The short version is: the desktop app and CLI are free and always will be; optional cloud & AI services will cost money. Working w/ .xlsx files shouldn't cost money,…

Hey HN, I’m Matt, the founder of Nobie. I started my career in banking and haven’t been able to shake the deep reverence I have for Excel. I grew up on it. There are many good atte…

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