Can you get through https api the data on the spreadsheet ?
Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
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#22These approach has been tried so many times and has failed so many times that it’s not funny
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#23Note that they have a GitHub but they are not open source.
Correct, our license is Source Available to be as open as possible while reserving commercial rights, which we believe will ultimately enable us to build the best product for users.
What does "Source Available" mean exactly?
Does it mean all our source code is on Github but you cannot use it to host your own instance for commercial purposes but okay for personal projects?
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#24Interesting product. We would use that as a backoffice that would be self hosted, fetching from and pushing to backend APIs. Is that use case on your roadmap? Basically an alternative to Google sheet with JS macros in it. Gsheet is no good for us because we have data protection requirements.
You can run JS in Excel now too though, I believe? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/referen...
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#25Genuine question: How is this different from Google sheets? I don't see much here that I've not already been doing for years in Google sheets (except native python I guess - JS, SQL, fetch() etc has otherwise been there for ages and it's all free) Also the logo looks a lot like Microsoft? I am not colourblind but it might look even more similar if you are?
They seem to execute JS locally in the browser. Google Sheets makes a network call for this, which results in a laggy experience. I ran into this while I was developing my own Google Sheets add-on [1] which allows inline definition of JS within Sheets but the lag makes the UX subpar.
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#26I’ve been looking for exactly this. (For Python to be specific, but I see you support that too.) Nice!
What are the limits on number of rows, data in cells, and number of columns? I saw you say “infinite” on one blurb but couldn’t find reference to limits anywhere else.
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#27Does it export to Excel?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct, our license is Source Available to be as open as possible while reserving commercial rights, which we believe will ultimately enable us to build the best product for users.
What does "Source Available" mean exactly? Does it mean all our source code is on Github but you cannot use it to host your own instance for commercial purposes but okay for personal projects?
More probably code available on demand but without any license attached
Re: Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
#29These approach has been tried so many times and has failed so many times that it’s not funny
I guess I wasn't around to see it; do you mind saying why it's failed? Well, I don't know if it's commercially viable, but just speaking for myself I've been looking for something like this for a while.
Re: Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
#30Emacs org mode with org babel allows you to use many programming languages in its spreadsheets, for at least small sizes of spreadsheets, or multiple spreadsheet throughout the document. There can be some friction though, converting strings to other types, to perform calculation.