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Some features I think are pretty cool: - We can render pixel perfect PNGs and PDFs (native vectorized PDFs) - You can pass an xlsx, inputs, and output cells, and get a JSON API from any excel workbook - You can pipe a postgres query into an xlsx file, and then run excel formulas over it - You can pretty easily setup a `git diff` helper for xlsx files that shows you the changes you care about - We have a built-in term…
This is really cool - I think desktop tools, like native apps, CLIs, self-hosted tools, etc., have a lot of potential for innovation since they can be consumed by agents and the user can maintain more privacy, while also using their preferred agents and not being locked into a specific one.
desktop apps are so back
Can it handle dynamic array formulas and LET, LAMBDA etc?
Yep :) We fully support the formula language, and workbook semantics. The main deficiency we have right now is not letting people create / edit pivot tables. We support what-if scenario analysis, conditional formatting, cycles, lambdas, arrays, spills, lets, etc.
2) It doesn't look like the app supports external data. Most corporate users have access to some kind of database/data warehouse serving as a repository of data in the organisation. Without this feature, it's pretty much useless in a corporate environment. Unless you analyse external data, like quarterly financials of public companies. Not sure who's the target market/audience for this product.
1) The landing page is strange, you can see features (Editing, Pivots etc.) but there are no screenshots of the actual app. I would like to see how different it looks vis-a-vis excel, before I bother to download and install the app. 2) It doesn't look like the app supports external data. Most corporate users have access to some kind of database/data warehouse serving as a repository of data in the organisation. Witho…
- There's no GUI for it at the moment, but you can programmatically load data into Nobie. If you have access to a data store, and you use LLM tools, you can just tell it to load the data in, and it'll work. The target market is all spreadsheet users, so we've definitely put thought into this exact problem.
1) The landing page is strange, you can see features (Editing, Pivots etc.) but there are no screenshots of the actual app. I would like to see how different it looks vis-a-vis excel, before I bother to download and install the app. 2) It doesn't look like the app supports external data. Most corporate users have access to some kind of database/data warehouse serving as a repository of data in the organisation. Witho…
- We'll be putting out more content showing off Nobie. Too many screenshots felt distracting for the launch page. - There's no GUI for it at the moment, but you can programmatically load data into Nobie. If you have access to a data store, and you use LLM tools, you can just tell it to load the data in, and it'll work. The target market is all spreadsheet users, so we've definitely put thought into this exact problem…
Can it handle dynamic array formulas and LET, LAMBDA etc?
Yep :) We fully support the formula language, and workbook semantics. The main deficiency we have right now is not letting people create / edit pivot tables. We support what-if scenario analysis, conditional formatting, cycles, lambdas, arrays, spills, lets, etc.
Very cool, well done. I’ll try it out! Is the calculation engine for the formulas tour custom, or is it built on top of eg Apache POI?
built from the ground up in rust, with the aim that it's much faster than Excel. It supports all Excel formulas.