I was able to spook it, but we do tons of back of the envelope calculations at my office all the time and I plan on making this my homepage at work.
This basically blows the Google calculator away
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Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#12Hey guys, this is Kalid from instacalc. Thanks for the link -- please send any feedback/bug reports to kalid@instacalc.com and have fun playing around with it. I'm actually in YC this summer on another project with some friends, we'll let you know when it's launched :)
http://my.instacalc.com/calc/92299353cf9840adbe298cad39c46b7... are you aware that you're getting spammed? why don't have rel=nofollow in place for links?
go go black hat SEO
Nice catch
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#13Nice site, though it doesn't work on some of the bandwidth calculations I often do via Google calculator. (eg: "(1TB / 100Mbps) in days") For the curious, there's a GPL project, 'qalculate', which could be used as the basis for similar calculator services.
Thanks -- you can actually do the calculation above like this:
http://instacalc.com/?d=&c=KDFUQi8xTUIpIHNlY29uZHMgaW4gZ...
I'm not tracking the implicit unit conversion (1TB/ 100 Mbps)... yet :)
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://my.instacalc.com/calc/92299353cf9840adbe298cad39c46b7... are you aware that you're getting spammed? why don't have rel=nofollow in place for links?
go go black hat SEO Nice catch
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I was surprised how quickly the spammers found my little old site. Nofollow is a great suggestion. I may need to add captchas as well.
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#15Awesome! I think there's a bug--can anyone else confirm that the bar chart doesn't seem to work in shared spreadsheets: http://my.instacalc.com/calc/1c58eb08760043bfb67924cb5fa1684...
Um, it's a "feature" :)
I purposefully disabled charts on the embedded versions to save bandwidth (about 100kb of javascript), but I plan to add it in.
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#16And it's a great example of the type of design YC prefers. The functionality of the site is clear at first glance.
True, but we didn't have anything to do with this. They'd made instacalc before we funded them, and their YC startup is totally unrelated.
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#17I was able to spook it, but we do tons of back of the envelope calculations at my office all the time and I plan on making this my homepage at work.
Wow, I hope it will be useful for you! Let me know (kalid@instacalc.com) if there's any features you need.
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#18i tried: R7: 384 kbit/sec in GB/month
then using the result from R7: R7/1mb
the calculation will not use the quantity type of R7 which is GB, but only the number. trying to use: R7 in GB will again not use the right quantity for my result..
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#19i tried: R7: 384 kbit/sec in GB/month then using the result from R7: R7/1mb the calculation will not use the quantity type of R7 which is GB, but only the number. trying to use: R7 in GB will again not use the right quantity for my result..
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, right now I'm not tracking the type of each result, just the final result. This is a planned feature.
Re: This basically blows the Google calculator away
#20Very nice. But it doesn't have one of my favourite google calculator features: built-in physical constants -- things like "speed of light", "electron mass", "permittivity of free space", "planck's constant" and so forth.
I realize I'm in a bit of a niche here, but that's a very useful feature for me.