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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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lwansbrough wrote: post #24
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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Re: Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

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Post by knight17 »

hliyan wrote: post #25

Is there a regular spreadsheet product that allows cells to have explicit names and descriptions like this? (in addition to the value)

Excel has named cell ranges. So instead of

  =A5*A6
you could have

  =interest*principal
You can create them easily too -- can name the individually, can assign names from existing tables and so on. You can have constants too, that is, they don't have to point to any cell [1]. It is a godsend when working with bigger tables having lots of formulas.

[1] https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2017/07/11/excel...

[2]https://www.contextures.com/xlNames01.html

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

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Post by akdor1154 »

lwansbrough wrote: post #24
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.

Should have been more clear -

The app? No issues if this is a js web app, makes perfect sense.

But the frontpage, a basically static description of what your product is and why I should use it? That's more of an ask.

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

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Post by wcrichton »

Does this permit Bayesian inference? e.g. looks like graphical probabilistic programming (hooking up various distributions and performing inference), except the key missing component is the ability to observe values for any given distribution beyond the prior.

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

#39

Post by stanislavb »

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…

Seems like you've put some solid work here. Who would you name your top competitors?

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

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…

I’ve used the product to “guesstimate” a few things like quality of life with a higher paying job with longer commute (not worth it!) and starting a business. Love how intuitive and clean the UI is and how it puts probability estimation at my fingertips, in simple, human language.

Thank you!

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