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Show HN: Grist, a Hacker Friendly Spreadsheet

27 pointsby paulfitzover 4 years ago

7 comments

dsagalover 4 years ago
Founder here :)<p>While working at Google years ago, I co-founded a nonprofit for math enrichment classes. I ran it in my spare time, using Google Sheets, until the spreadsheet setup grew too unwieldy, time-consuming, and frustrating. Back then, I bit the bullet, and rebuilt it using Django. It took months of my evenings and weekends — just to recreate a database version of what I <i>almost</i> had with a spreadsheet.<p>That got me thinking what made spreadsheets my tool of choice to start with, and what made me switch to a database, and if we can have the best of both worlds. So we built Grist to be a “relational spreadsheet” — most of what a spreadsheet has, but with more structure, linking between records, and a flexible UI on top.<p>I’ve been using Grist daily, it’s now my tool of choice. I’d love to know what uses you put it to as well!
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ralphiliusover 4 years ago
Great tool guys. I&#x27;ve been dreaming of such a flexible but convenient tool. The existing tools like Airtable, Coda or Notion are good up to certain point, but allowing Python functions really open up a higher level.
samblrover 4 years ago
&gt;&gt; Grist tables are literally SQLite tables.<p>So whenever a new form&#x2F;table is created, is it getting stored within a sqlite table on your backend ?
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ramonover 4 years ago
Hey guys, Instead of me trying to put together Jupyter and this can I just use Python in Grist like use the Pandas and everything else? Combining this plus the magic of Jupyter seems like my dream environment now :). No need to worry about anything else :).
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ttsdaover 4 years ago
Finally we have good alternatives to Airtable coming out! I&#x27;m really liking where this is going.
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hurricaneditkaover 4 years ago
love it but it&#x27;s no spreadsheet
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mritchie712over 4 years ago
What made you decide to go open source?
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