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Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by chadash »

warkdarrior wrote: post #63
chadash wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I'd love to see is an easy workflow to make this supplant Google docs. Right now, let's say i want a shared spreadsheet. I need to: 1) Signup for an account 2) Create a workbook 3) Click share and put in friend's email 4) They get an invite 5) Now they need to sign up 6) They can edit my doc I'm not a paying customer (or even a user... I just heard of this), so take this with a grain of salt, but what I'd love t…

This feature would be the fastest way for the company to have the least number of paying users. As a user, I'd pay for one account and then share new spreadsheets with anyone who asks for one on the Internet.

If I’m the type of user who would ever consider paying, I’m most definitely not the type of person who wants to ask a stranger on the internet to setup a new spreadsheet for me every time I want to use one. I wouldn’t even want to ask a friend or coworker.

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by breckognize »

nolongerthere wrote: post #133
breckognize wrote: post #2

Founder/CEO here. When I worked in AWS S3, I spent a lot of time in Excel. Even as a dev, it was the fastest way to explore data, build models, and share forecasts with business partners. My Excel usage was plagued by slow performance, poor cloud integration, and no first-class Python support. I loved the richness and responsiveness of Excel, but I had to give up too much power to get it. This felt like a false choic…

The power of excel is that everyone has it and most people have a ton of familiarity with it and there’s a million results for anything you search Google that you don’t know how to do. Basically, all the network effects, bec you’re right if excel were a new product today it would lose to every single competitor that does it much better. Are you compatible with excel functions?

Yes, Excel compatible: https://rowzero.io/docs/spreadsheet-functions

If we're missing any formulas you need, message me at breck at rowzero.io and we'll add them (usually within 24 hours).

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by gamegoblin »

cha42 wrote: post #137

Do you have any simd-optim in parsing all those large files ? I have read that you write some of your own parser for perf boost. (I am one of the author of https://github.com/V0ldek/rsonpath )

No SIMD in the parser path... yet... :)

The main win from writing our own custom parser is writing directly into the final in-memory format from the parse stream without any intermediate allocations or data movement.

Awesome project! Adding it to my list of things we may plug into in the future.

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by billylitt »

laborcontract wrote: post #116

I'm an Excel power(max?)(ultra!?) user and the only thing I want from an alternative to microsoft word on windows is a drop in replacement to their alt shortcuts. Those are the air that I breathe when using Excel and fast isn't fast if you're working slow.

Row Zero frontend dev here. Totally understand where you're coming from; we've heard this request from others and are interested in exploring a seamless solution for `alt` reliant power users like yourself.

Drop me an email if you'd be interested in user-testing a solution! billy[at]rowzero.io

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by elforce002 »

gamegoblin wrote: post #129
elforce002 wrote: post #109

Interesting concept. Are you planning on offering an interactive embedding alternative (add the spreadsheet to an existing app) soon?

We have definitely gotten requests to embed spreadsheets in webpages (e.g. as dashboards, etc), it's on the roadmap

Nice. Is there a way to access the roadmap or to be on the loop regarding new features?

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by breckognize »

tiffanyh wrote: post #140
breckognize wrote: post #2

Founder/CEO here. When I worked in AWS S3, I spent a lot of time in Excel. Even as a dev, it was the fastest way to explore data, build models, and share forecasts with business partners. My Excel usage was plagued by slow performance, poor cloud integration, and no first-class Python support. I loved the richness and responsiveness of Excel, but I had to give up too much power to get it. This felt like a false choic…

Hi. Your product looks great. Would you mind helping me understand the differences between RowZero and something like Equals.com?

Equals and Row Zero are in the same space. They've put more effort into their suite of cloud data connectors, while we've focused on performance and first class Python support. We'll be adding more connectors in the coming months.

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by lancewiggs »

breckognize wrote: post #142
nolongerthere wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The power of excel is that everyone has it and most people have a ton of familiarity with it and there’s a million results for anything you search Google that you don’t know how to do. Basically, all the network effects, bec you’re right if excel were a new product today it would lose to every single competitor that does it much better. Are you compatible with excel functions?

Yes, Excel compatible: https://rowzero.io/docs/spreadsheet-functions If we're missing any formulas you need, message me at breck at rowzero.io and we'll add them (usually within 24 hours).

You'll also need formatting to be the same to get adoption. e.g. I wanted to format numbers as currency, and got USD$x,xxx as a result, and no obvious way to change that to $x,xxx.

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by Terretta »

breckognize wrote: post #83
Terretta wrote: post #70

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Starting from a place of "I want to start providing this to my employees yesterday"... I can't see how to adopt this at an info-sec minded financial services firm that would otherwise love to pay you for it. For example, the docs show the product wants static creds for a Postgres database or signed URL for S3 bucket instead of leveraging best-practice service-to-service identity and access management. Maybe you suppo…

For S3 specifically, we support IAM-based role assumption. If you go to Data > Import from Amazon S3 > Add S3 Bucket, you can grant our AWS account permissions to read an S3 bucket in your account. We also have dedicated hosting options for our Enterprise tier. If there's a specific data source you'd like us to support OAuth integration for, let me know, and we'll add it.

Great to hear you can do the policy.

Are you able to be “NSL-proof”?

This means, if you are served a national security letter with a gag order saying to turn over my data without telling me, can you?

If you are not NSL proof, are you able to demonstrate who from your firm can, and cannot, by technical guarantee not by policy in the “signed agreement” sense, see my data, and can I see in an audit log any time and every time any of those people do see my data?

Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

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Post by breckognize »

lancewiggs wrote: post #147
breckognize wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Excel compatible: https://rowzero.io/docs/spreadsheet-functions If we're missing any formulas you need, message me at breck at rowzero.io and we'll add them (usually within 24 hours).

You'll also need formatting to be the same to get adoption. e.g. I wanted to format numbers as currency, and got USD$x,xxx as a result, and no obvious way to change that to $x,xxx.

Sounds like a bug, but I'm having trouble reproducing. If you share repro steps with breck at rowzero.io, we'll get it fixed.
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