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Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

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Re: Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

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Post by cheez »

ozgooen wrote: post #14

Cofounder Here: Happy to see this on hnews again. Update: Matthew (the other cofounder) and I got Guesstimate to a stage we were happy with. After a good amount of work it seemed like several customers were pretty happy with it, but there weren't many obvious ways of making a ton more money on it, and we ran out of many of the most requested/obvious improvements. We're keeping it running, but it's not getting much mo…

Hey this is super cool, looking forward to your future tools to complement guesstimate.

I'd imagine an Excel plugin to do something similar would be valuable.

Re: Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

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Post by ozgooen »

scottmcdot wrote: post #20

Almost looks like it could be used in education, teaching stats?

I've heard of it being used in a few classes. There was one estimation session with one group of what I remember to be 8th-graders. Honestly, I really don't think you need to be great at statistics to understand the fundamental concepts.

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Post by gpsx »

akdor1154 wrote: post #19

I get a big blank page when js is disabled. If your web design is that lazy it doesn't speak well about your product.

It sounds like two guys made this. Its hard for two guys to be experts enough to make a product like this and also happen to be up on the current state of making web sites.

I say this because I am working on a product in my spare time and I'm surprised to see how many different areas of expertise are required. (My web site is terrible. And good documentation is tough.)

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Post by lwansbrough »

akdor1154 wrote: post #19

I get a big blank page when js is disabled. If your web design is that lazy it doesn't speak well about your product.

It's ~2019 which means JS has been around for 23 years, so turn JS on or stop complaining -- and it's pretty absurd to comment on the laziness of a person based on their decision to use a defacto-available technology that you chose to disable. Actually, I'd like to hear how you'd build this application without Javascript and have it meet users' expectations of modern web apps.
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