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Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
Company blog · quadratichq.com/blogprogrammingstartups
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet is the company blog at quadratichq.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2023, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, & AI (WASM and WebGL)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Quadratic's site, an open-source spreadsheet for engineers with Python support and an infinite canvas. It is mostly cited as a related product in spreadsheet and Excel-Python discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The AI spreadsheet that connects to your data and helps you understand it fast. Turn questions into fast, explainable, and shareable insights.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, & AI (WASM and WebGL)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-02-16
- The coordinate system for an infinite spreadsheet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22
What Hacker News says?
We use https://www.quadratichq.com for this. It works pretty well too!
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on “Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge”Submitted Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 as a story · 136 points
HN discussionHow do you handle server sync? What is the use case? You don't seem to be for application building, rather for doing analysis work ( https://www.quadratichq.com/examples ) where the main problem you solve is "No more squinting into a tiny terminal to see your data output"? So this is a data swiss army knife for developers, a dev sidecar if you will that attaches to your python REPL i guess. How do you make money?
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on “Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is Multiplayer”Submitted Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet as a story · 112 points
HN discussionHi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic ( https://QuadraticHQ.com ), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps. Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on P…
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on “Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is Multiplayer”Submitted Quadratic – Figma-for-Spreadsheets – Is Multiplayer as a story · 40 points
HN discussionRelevant: https://www.quadratichq.com/
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on “Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel”Submitted Show HN: Spreadsheet with dark mode as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.quadratichq.com
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on “Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel”Submitted Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, & AI (WASM and WebGL) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionopen source data spreadsheet + python tool - were you looking at https://www.quadratichq.com/ ? or something else?
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on “Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python”Submitted Chat with your data using an AI spreadsheet with code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQuadratic is pretty similar to Grid studio and still being actively developed ( https://www.quadratichq.com/ ) But re:parent comment, I'm not sure I understand how you could handle the visualization independently
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on “A modern, open-source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid”Submitted The coordinate system for an infinite spreadsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>If you treat the cells as if they are centered on coordinates, the problem is resolved. (-2,0) is 2 to the left, and (2,0) is 2 to the right of the origin. The article's screenshot already shows the cells "centered on the coordinates": https://www.quadratichq.com/assets/blog/2023-05-15-coordinat... The issue is the row-0-column-0-cells are themselves also "containers" and making those cells "inclusive" of either th…
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on “The coordinate system for an infinite spreadsheet”Submitted Building the coordinate system for an infinite spreadsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA benighted programming language if I ever saw one. I don't use Excel so maybe someone call tell me why people don't just migrate their queries to Python: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Excel/python/get-started... Is support poor? Competitors can do it: https://www.quadratichq.com/ (look at their VLOOKUP example)
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on “Alternatives to Nested If Function”Submitted Quadratic Teams and $5.6M seed round as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, I am David Kircos. The Founder of Quadratic ( https://QuadraticHQ.com ), an open-source spreadsheet application for engineers that supports Python, SQL (coming soon), and classic Formulas. Unlike other spreadsheets, Quadratic has an infinite canvas (like Figma). As a result, you can pinch and zoom to navigate large data sets, and everything renders smoothly at 60fps. Today, we launched real-time Multiplayer on P…
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