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Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Re: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Post by mceoin »

sim_123 wrote: post #10

This is amazing. I’ve been scouting for such a solution as we’ve outgrown excel. Giving it a spin

A very common use case we see is SMBs having outgrown their spreadsheet but not wanting to move to a full-blown BI tool. They want the power, but not the change in interface/medium.

I didn't go into details above but a nice thing is that we leverage cloud compute and storage, so you can query billion-row data in sub-second time. (Courtesy of Duck!)

Re: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Post by mceoin »

calufa wrote: post #12

Congrats on the launch! It’s wild to see AI stepping into spreadsheets like this. Pretty soon there won’t be a part of our workflow AI hasn’t touched.

Thanks _hfqa! We think there's massive potential here. It's a big platform shift, and spreadsheets weren't really impacted by the mobile or cloud compute waves, so it's a space long-overdue for disruption. (The last shift was back when Google Sheets took spreadsheets to the browser 17 years ago!!)

Re: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Post by mceoin »

alooPotato wrote: post #16

Cool. How did you build so many integrations so fast? Selfishly, would love to see Streak (CRM) integration as well.

Mostly Fivetran, a little Airbyte, and a few custom integrations. Would love to add Streak (can you get it into Fivetran? We can usually crank those integrations out within an hour.)

Re: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Post by mceoin »

mceoin wrote: post #17
alooPotato wrote: post #16

Cool. How did you build so many integrations so fast? Selfishly, would love to see Streak (CRM) integration as well.

Mostly Fivetran, a little Airbyte, and a few custom integrations. Would love to add Streak (can you get it into Fivetran? We can usually crank those integrations out within an hour.)

p.s. I was a massive Streak user at a previous (sales-driven) startup. Big fan!

Re: Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

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Post by djbiggs »

Awesome, have you got any mining specific worked examples or spatial examples? Thinking about lidar point clouds and running deltas for stock pile management. Looking at building a new mine and typically there at any mine site there are excel macros which might take an hour to run embeded in the operations. Often developed by older engineers, who will default to excel. Any suggestions on how best drive technical user adoption (asides from dropping it on the kids in the engineering deparments, can't wait that long) ?
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