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Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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refrigerator wrote: post #6

Hi everyone, I'm one of the Causal founders — we actually launched a super barebones MVP here on HN in 2019[1], back when we were still tinkering around on nights and weekends, and the reception + signups from that gave us the confidence to quit our jobs and go full-time on this, so thanks for the early support! The product has come a long way since that first HN launch. The best way to think about it is as a 'multid…

For your use case, what if you could use Python in Excel with pandas, numpy and the Anaconda ecosystem readily available? How would that change things?

Disclosure: I was a founding member of the Python in Excel team and am looking for new problems that Python in Excel could solve.

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by pedalpete »

bryanmgreen wrote: post #20

One thing I have to really congratulate you on is your product video. I honestly think it's one of the best I've seen for any software. It showcases the functionality, displays the actual UI, doesn't rely on narration, is visually interesting, and succinct. Was it made internally or with an agency?

Along with an excellent use of music and pacing. Though it doesn't answer the "is this product for me" question, it does build excitement to make me want to learn more.

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by toomuchtodo »

refrigerator wrote: post #9
parkaboy wrote: post #8

Very excited by this and congratulations. I've been an avid causal user on the free plan at the early-stage startup I work for, and used it at my startup before that. It's been so great to see how the product has evolved. I can't overstate what a pleasure it has been to work with even when it was in its earliest stages. I would absolutely convert to paying if the jump to the next tier weren't so expensive ($250/mo),…

Totally get it — we know the $250 is too big a jump and we're currently trying to figure out the mechanics of a starter plan at $99/mo. In the meantime, we're pretty chill about offering $99 plans to early stage companies if you're under 10 people, or have raised under $500k. You can find the form for that on our pricing page under "Startup programme": https://causal.app/pricing Hope that helps, and thanks for the ki…

Same pricing for a non profit by chance?

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by refrigerator »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #43
refrigerator wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally get it — we know the $250 is too big a jump and we're currently trying to figure out the mechanics of a starter plan at $99/mo. In the meantime, we're pretty chill about offering $99 plans to early stage companies if you're under 10 people, or have raised under $500k. You can find the form for that on our pricing page under "Startup programme": https://causal.app/pricing Hope that helps, and thanks for the ki…

Same pricing for a non profit by chance?

Yup we’ve done that a bunch - please fill in the form and we’d love to consider :)

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by refrigerator »

durmanhoth wrote: post #40

There seem to be some synergies that you can leverage with spend management and expense management platforms (such as Brex, Ramp, etc.). Is this a fair assumption, and if so, have you considered exploring any opportunities in this area? Interesting stuff!

We’ve done some marketing partnerships with Ramp before, would be great to eventually get that data live in Causal!

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by Lukas1994 »

localhost wrote: post #41
refrigerator wrote: post #6

Hi everyone, I'm one of the Causal founders — we actually launched a super barebones MVP here on HN in 2019[1], back when we were still tinkering around on nights and weekends, and the reception + signups from that gave us the confidence to quit our jobs and go full-time on this, so thanks for the early support! The product has come a long way since that first HN launch. The best way to think about it is as a 'multid…

For your use case, what if you could use Python in Excel with pandas, numpy and the Anaconda ecosystem readily available? How would that change things? Disclosure: I was a founding member of the Python in Excel team and am looking for new problems that Python in Excel could solve.

IMO this still doesn't change the fact that Excel is a 2D grid. Dealing with multi-dimensional data will always be tricky in that paradigm. Also, you'll still have cell references, no version control, no access control, ...

Excel is an amazing product and I'm sure people will still use it in 10 years. Our thesis is that for financial planning (and various other number-crunching use-cases) our building blocks make more sense.

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by Lukas1994 »

swyx wrote: post #38
dark_ph0enix wrote: post #5

We've had a number of very interesting technical challenges along the way to this 2.0 release: - traffic tiering and balancing based on request's perceived amount of work - low latency data loading during our calc loop - implementing a selector framework to unify all the stores used by the application - redesigning the formula editor to make human friendly yet expressive enough for the most hardcore user (fun UX chal…

please do! spin up an engineering blog on hashnode. https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/

We have released a few bits actually! https://causal.app/blog/scaling is one of my favourites (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000400)

Re: Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

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Post by no_wizard »

dark_ph0enix wrote: post #5

We've had a number of very interesting technical challenges along the way to this 2.0 release: - traffic tiering and balancing based on request's perceived amount of work - low latency data loading during our calc loop - implementing a selector framework to unify all the stores used by the application - redesigning the formula editor to make human friendly yet expressive enough for the most hardcore user (fun UX chal…

>redesigning the formula editor to make human friendly yet expressive enough for the most hardcore user (fun UX challenge)

I work in this space. I don't envy this. Been through it more than once.

Did you also have challenges with circular references?

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