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These 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.


The ones who use spreadsheet usually don't write code well.

The ones who code usually don't like spreadsheet.


What gets me is that even if you don't code much, if you're using a spreadsheet with formulas, in that moment you are writing code, and doing so in an awful, awful language. Sure, "SUM" is easy, but the moment you have any kind of conditional logic it gets pretty hairy. Maybe there's something about traditional spreadsheet languages that makes them easier than, say, numpy for non-coders, but I don't see it.


That's one of the reasons we started building Quadratic, it's a spreadsheet where everyone - technical or not can work with data in the same place. With our AI integration, anyone can start writing JS or Python for complex analysis or mix in formulas for simpler computations.


U can still google resolver one or was revolver one. It was bascilly the same thing but python.


If you give Quadratic a try, we'd love to hear your feedback - there's a button in the app :)




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