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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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Hey do you mind removing this comment? Seems it might have caused us to be blacklisted?

I'm sorry, I've missed the "delete" window. But may I know how a comment here (after it being blacklisted) about it being blacklisted will be the reason to be blacklisted?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ deciphering magic algorithms.

Very much appreciate the bug report. Thank you!

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

#63

It’s amazing that Microsoft - given their focus on AI and decades of experience in spreadsheets - doesn’t offer this type of functionality. Corporate bureaucracy vs startup agility!

Actually Microsoft do now have Copilot and Python in Excel recently released last week. Maybe a bit slow.

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

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Hi I'm Andy, Cofounder & CTO @ Sourcetable. We use a heavily modified licensed engine that prevents us from open sourcing everything (for now). We have plans to open source our agentic/plugin framework, and other parts of the system. We also have a strong ethos of contributing back to open source where we can (contributed back to Arrow, DuckDB etc.). I'd also add that while everyone knows how to use and work with spr…

Will you be able to share name of the engine ?

Seems like customized version of luckysheet

https://dream-num.github.io/LuckysheetDemo/

https://github.com/dream-num/Luckysheet/issues/1454

I am not related to either sourcetable or luckysheet

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

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This is incredible. I uploaded a CSV with ~6000 rows containing campaign finance data for a particularly corrupt local politician and asked "what was the total contributed amount in [year]". Not only did it produce the correct answer (in around the same amount of time it took me to calculate it on my end) but it also seemed to understand that the spreadsheet was related to campaign finance in the "summary" portion of…

Can Office 365 Copilot do this too?
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