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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 tptacek »

bschmidt1 wrote: post #80
dang wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't post personal attacks to HN. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597837 .

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"Andrew was making a fool of himself" is a personal attack. This is not a good forum for this kind of information sharing. You can maybe do it, but only if you're ultra careful; if it's a personal critique of someone who might read the thread, and it's easy to write, it's probably problematic.

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

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Post by mmerlin »

codegladiator wrote: post #68
Jayakumark wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

or possibly FortuneSheet which is an actively maintained fork of the original LuckySheet

https://github.com/ruilisi/fortune-sheet

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

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Post by hisnameisjimmy »

alooPotato wrote: post #16

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

Fivetran will build a Streak integration if you bring a customer who will use it (sometimes as little as one): https://fivetran.com/docs/by-request-program

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

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Post by bschmidt1 »

tptacek wrote: post #81
bschmidt1 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"Andrew was making a fool of himself" is a personal attack. This is not a good forum for this kind of information sharing. You can maybe do it, but only if you're ultra careful; if it's a personal critique of someone who might read the thread, and it's easy to write, it's probably problematic.

It was in reply to a dishonest comment that was taken down. It's normal to use elevated rhetoric when correcting the record about a false idea being put forth and made public.

Furthermore saying "probably because the CTO is a dick" to a random person online - in response to a question about why their startup is blacklisted - is definitely fair game. How many people have said "{insert CEO name} is a dick" on these forums?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=is+a+dick

I think you guys are way too sensitive, unless "reputation management" is part of the YC offering it's a bad look to even be involved in my comments like this. Let people say what they want within reason.

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

#86

Post by tptacek »

bschmidt1 wrote: post #84
tptacek wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Andrew was making a fool of himself" is a personal attack. This is not a good forum for this kind of information sharing. You can maybe do it, but only if you're ultra careful; if it's a personal critique of someone who might read the thread, and it's easy to write, it's probably problematic.

It was in reply to a dishonest comment that was taken down. It's normal to use elevated rhetoric when correcting the record about a false idea being put forth and made public. Furthermore saying "probably because the CTO is a dick" to a random person online - in response to a question about why their startup is blacklisted - is definitely fair game . How many people have said "{insert CEO name} is a dick" on these fo…

I'm just a random guy here; if what I wrote wasn't helpful, disregard! Sorry about that.

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

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Post by robertclaus »

mceoin wrote: post #77
jacobjellyfish wrote: post #64

This looks great! Well done. My concern is that there's not a single mention of data privacy. Which is is a red flag for any one coming from an enterprise world. Get that sorted and I'd consider using your tool for actual work.

Hi - we encrypt everything at rest and use metadata to improve LLM performance. We don't yet have enterprise-grade data permissioning or compliance certificates like Soc2. Those will come in time.

Data schemas and questions asked about data are just as much a company's IP as the data itself. It frustrates me that startups suddenly draw a line here for their own convenience when tuning generative AI. If I (as an employee) publicly posted all our database schemas and report descriptions, I would obviously be violating IP laws. Yet vendors think this "metadata" is fine to use and potentially leak across users.

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

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Post by albert_e »

Possibly off-topic:

If i want to enable a simple internal web application (say React) with ability for users to manage master data tables, their schemas, and PK-FK relationships using a simple lookup -- as close to a simple spreadsheet as possible (upload and download CSV or view/edit data in a spreadsheet view) ... what are some good components or libraries that I can utilize?

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

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Post by tellarin »

aerosmile wrote: post #19

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!

When I was in there in Microsoft Research, our team was working on related efforts. But, yes, while pieces have shipped into products, MS never released a complete solution at the time.

Some links that might be of interest:

- Table semantics: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/table-inter...

- Entity semantics (video): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AMIdbT4yVFaw2Kk&cid=A6...

- Natural Language in Spreadsheets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/gridbook/

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

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Post by mceoin »

tellarin wrote: post #89
aerosmile wrote: post #19

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!

When I was in there in Microsoft Research, our team was working on related efforts. But, yes, while pieces have shipped into products, MS never released a complete solution at the time. Some links that might be of interest: - Table semantics: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/table-inter... - Entity semantics (video): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AMIdbT4yVFaw2Kk&cid=A6... - Natural Language in…

Thank you for sharing! Would love to grab a coffee if you're ever in San Francisco. eoin@sourcetable.com
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