Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

Post by avdlinde » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:48 AM UTC

jklp wrote: post #17

armchairhacker wrote: post #7

I wish there were more apps like this which let you just type text and make/do things. Just make everything a sort of real-time coding. It's often much faster to do stuff with text and keyboard than any fancy GUI. Other examples: sequencediagram.net, SwiftUI and React to some extent, vim directory managers (e.g. some let you rename files just by editing text and delete them just by deleting lines) The only issue is,…

Agree about the "just type in text" paradigm though I feel they suffer from the "empty state" problem. You can see I tried to mitigate with the "blank sheet" placeholder text, and on web there're templates available. Unfortunately it appears only a fraction of users use the templates, and of course users never read the placeholder text! I haven't heard of immediate / retained mode before - interesting concept! Figr i…

Post by krstffr » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 8:06 AM UTC

Post by etchasketch » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 8:31 AM UTC

twarge wrote: post #20

This seems to be a shadow of Calca. https://calca.io

Post by medv » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 9:31 AM UTC

4silvertooth wrote: post #32

armchairhacker wrote: post #7

I wish there were more apps like this which let you just type text and make/do things. Just make everything a sort of real-time coding. It's often much faster to do stuff with text and keyboard than any fancy GUI. Other examples: sequencediagram.net, SwiftUI and React to some extent, vim directory managers (e.g. some let you rename files just by editing text and delete them just by deleting lines) The only issue is,…

I had been looking for such an application, but than I decided to build one myself that suffice my needs, here is the repo https://github.com/4silvertooth/QwikTape

Post by fatih-erikli » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 10:03 AM UTC

  $ python
  >>> weeklyprice=4000
  >>> dailyprice=weeklyprice/7
  >>> februaryprice=dailyprice\*28
  >>> februaryprice
  15988