I like the idea. It looks like something that I would use for work.
The side looks like something that has a paid plan. Sadly I can't find any information on pricing (and if it's free, why can't I find that info?).
It's too bad I work in the public sector and due to date privacy we can't use tools like this for work, as the data is not under our control.
This looks great, looks like a lot of work has been poured in getting the UX right.
I am the creator of a spreadsheet-like JavaScript product named DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com). I can tell how much work it is to get all the interactions right!
One thing that confused me is the immediate-drag when clicking on row or column header, I am used that single-click is for selecting, and only drag when the column or row is already selected.
In any case, you guys are on to something here! Best of luck!
Very cool prototype! I work in customer analytics and while I love the "infinite" column/row aspect of Excel, it's always annoyed me that it's not free-form, and that the width of a block of cells is constrained by whatever data I have above/below it.
It would be cool if you could use the Excel-style UI and formulas to build a back-end for small web apps whose front-end could be customizable with CSS.
Good adaption: feels a little bit like Apple Numbers for the web. One thing I always wonder about: when will we get a usable spreadsheet like application for mobile devices with small screens.
Nice work OP, this has a lot in common with how I always wished excel worked. It's nice to see that someone's finally built it, and better than I would have.
FYI your homepage has a couple of typos (spreadshet and spreadhseets).
congrats. UX looks great.. and i personally know that part was not easy to refine.
curious, what solution are you using for the realtime multiplayer?
good luck!
Looks like figma for spreadsheets
this is great. OneNote should have had something like this years ago but you know how the world is.
This is similar to an idea I once had about spreadsheets. In my mind it was more focused on being able to handle bigger amounts of data in a more efficient way: a "block" would be a data source and could for example be linked to a database or something else instead of data in spreadsheet cells.
In any case, I think this looks really good.
What I personally would find handy, is if there would be a way to show that one block depends on data from another block. I think it will be common that several blocks will be pure input and other blocks will be pure output. It should be doable to show direct dependencies for a block and the transitive dependencies for a block.
A separate input box for editing cells might also be useful.
I like that it runs in a browser, but I would appreciate if there is a way to run the software locally and store the data locally. And like I said, I would like to see a way to define blocks that connect to a data source, such as a database running locally on my machine.