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Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is Multiplayer

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Post by davidkircos »

Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic (https://QuadraticHQ.com), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps.

Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Product Hunt!

Quadratic is built using WebGL and Rust WASM. We built our multiplayer service from scratch in Rust to handle large amounts of data smoothly. For smooth rendering of a large grid of data, cells and text are rendered using low-level WebGL for performance. If you are interested in the technical details, check us out on GitHub (https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/)

What do you think? Can we make a spreadsheet that developers actually enjoy using?

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Post by BrittonR »

davidkircos wrote: post #2

Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic ( https://QuadraticHQ.com ), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps. Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Pr…

Congrats on the launch! I was just looking at the Multiplayer PR earlier this week and was hoping it would be released soon. I’ve always been frustrated with Excel and you’ve built a product that I’ve legit dreamed of for years.

Thanks for building in CO!

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Post by dustingetz »

davidkircos wrote: post #2

Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic ( https://QuadraticHQ.com ), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps. Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Pr…

How do you handle server sync? What is the use case? You don't seem to be for application building, rather for doing analysis work (https://www.quadratichq.com/examples) where the main problem you solve is "No more squinting into a tiny terminal to see your data output"? So this is a data swiss army knife for developers, a dev sidecar if you will that attaches to your python REPL i guess. How do you make money?

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Post by paulgb »

davidkircos wrote: post #2

Hi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic ( https://QuadraticHQ.com ), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps. Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on Pr…

Congrats on releasing this!

I had a look at the server code. Is the idea that you will just vertically scale up the server to handle the load, or is there a mechanism for scaling out horizontally?

[1] https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/main/quadratic...

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