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Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by u2077 »

arsalanb wrote: post #19
u2077 wrote: post #18

Awesome, I’m actually spending the weekend building a personal project that’s very similar. Right now it goes from 3rd party api > database > website that presents all the data with chart.js I’ve spent quite a few hours on it and am nowhere near done. Looks like this will save people some serious time. 1-click live data entry is a really powerful selling point.

Super cool! There are some tricky challenges to solve under the hood to make one-click data entry work, for sure! Curious to learn what prompted you to build this..

I’m using 3 different apps for time tracking, expense tracking, and calendar. Existing solutions don’t integrate well with my niche setup.(for example, time trackers with billable hours don’t work for my side-project with variable revenue) Because I need granular data control and can’t justify a subscription for a small-ish project, I decided to take the plunge.

The end goal is to combine all 3 into one place that I have complete control of. (And make a bunch of cool looking graphs to look at)

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by arsalanb »

u2077 wrote: post #21
arsalanb wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super cool! There are some tricky challenges to solve under the hood to make one-click data entry work, for sure! Curious to learn what prompted you to build this..

I’m using 3 different apps for time tracking, expense tracking, and calendar. Existing solutions don’t integrate well with my niche setup.(for example, time trackers with billable hours don’t work for my side-project with variable revenue) Because I need granular data control and can’t justify a subscription for a small-ish project, I decided to take the plunge. The end goal is to combine all 3 into one place that I…

Cool! That's my favorite part of this format of "live" documents — based on what integrations exist, the output might be an entirely different tool. What tools do you use for time and expense tracking?

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by cloudking »

Great idea! Since you're already integrated with Google sign on, you should consider building a Workspace app and get into the marketplace: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace

You could integrate directly into Drive so customers can create LiveDocs from Drive, and get marketing exposure in the marketplace.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by thedays »

Looks great! Integration with Excel seems to be missing and is what I’d need to use it. Do you have any plans to integrate Excel soonish?

Beyond that, integrations with CRMs like Salesforce could also be really powerful for a too like this.

Also, have you considered integrating with a tool like Zapier rather than integrating directly with each app to accelerate the number of apps you’re integrated with?

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by u2077 »

arsalanb wrote: post #23
u2077 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m using 3 different apps for time tracking, expense tracking, and calendar. Existing solutions don’t integrate well with my niche setup.(for example, time trackers with billable hours don’t work for my side-project with variable revenue) Because I need granular data control and can’t justify a subscription for a small-ish project, I decided to take the plunge. The end goal is to combine all 3 into one place that I…

Cool! That's my favorite part of this format of "live" documents — based on what integrations exist, the output might be an entirely different tool. What tools do you use for time and expense tracking?

A couple of small and simple iOS apps after being frustrated with more enterprise based solutions.

Thiro [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thiro/id1555982483] a basic time tracker that does grouping and reports right. The only thing it lacks is billable hours.

Emerald [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emerald-money-journal/id143705...] A super simple expense tracker that does most things right, but unfortunately has a few bugs. It’s the only one I could find available that is privacy friendly and doesn’t have bloat.

Both of those apps are made by indie devs and have no subscriptions.

In addition, I am trying out timeator[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timemator-time-tracking/id1458...] which has the right idea for how I want revenue and time tracking to be integrated.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by ohashi »

You chose to call them live documents and seem to veer away from dashboard idea. It's cool to export 'reports' to whatever channel I'm interested in communicating over, but I wonder if you plan to offer a more Dashboard type view as well? I could see building a custom dashboard with your tools and have it look less 'documenty' for lack of a better word.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by watersb »

Callusing wrote: post #8

I am utterly shocked it has taken this long for something like this to come around. Direct integration of data flows into document processing has been an obvious next-step-up for any kind of scalable document production/management framework for at least the past few years. The amount of time I have to spend on a regular basis inputting, updating, and managing information that is presented in documents but compiled in…

> I am utterly shocked it has taken this long for something like this to come around.

Agreed.

The default output of a spreadsheet these days should be an embedded web component. Live graphs, linked to data source, edit and customize.

Re: Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code

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Post by swyx »

rdxm wrote: post #22

you can do this today with Jupyter Notebooks. Can you provide a value prop vis-a-vis Jupyter Notebooks? (aside of course from the raging dumpster fire of lack of curation in JN re vulns...)

you really gonna be this thread’s “you can do that with rsync” guy?
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