[HN Gopher] Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST...
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Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(),
ASK_OpenAI()
Author : luisb
Score : 65 points
Date : 2023-01-05 17:51 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (rows.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (rows.com)
| gr wrote:
| I use this, Rows.com is very cool stuff. Not (yet) a full
| replacement for G Sheets but 10x better for widgets and
| interactive tables and reports.
|
| And the built in forms are excellent!
| gr wrote:
| ... :chef: :kiss:
|
| No emojis ;-[
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| culi wrote:
| Seems like they have sort of a Notion-like approach to
| spreadsheets
|
| I agree it's pretty cool. What I'd _really_ love to see though
| is something like Jupyter Notebooks + Spreadsheets. If blocks
| of code and blocks of spreadsheets could talk to each other, it
| 'd definitely be a killer feature for me
| breck wrote:
| > something like Jupyter Notebooks + Spreadsheets.
|
| We built something like this at Our World in Data
| (https://pldb.com/languages/explorer.html) and it is still my
| favorite tool for building charts.
|
| I expect there to be more things like that. Another one I
| built is https://ohayo.computer/ (but it's due for a
| refresh).
| mediaman wrote:
| I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Grist
| has relationship-driven spreadsheets where the formulas are
| all Python code. And you can have multiple tables show on the
| same page, where selection of one filters the others.
|
| The tables are more database-style than pure unstructured
| Excel sheet style, but I've found that having a full Python
| environment in each cell to be pretty powerful, and I've
| started turning to it for analytical work because I can avoid
| the mess that larger Excel formulas can turn into.
|
| No relationship except as a customer -- they're at
| getgrist.com
| dsagal wrote:
| Ooh, excited to see mention of Grist (I am a cofounder).
| Python code and structured data are a great combination,
| and are particularly good for AI. We did an experiment
| where AI was quite impressive in writing Python formulas in
| Grist based on simple prompts:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809111
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| I suppose it's similar to rows.com's ASK_OPENAI("write a
| spreadsheet formula that..."). Most impressive is that it
| knows relationships between tables, and can construct
| correct lookup formulas, and do useful things with their
| results.
| patife wrote:
| Looks cool too! Python!!
| ent101 wrote:
| aside from the tech, I also really like the examples (e.g.
| cleaning addresses), they are practical uses of GPT. Gave me some
| ideas too!
| oi_ocha_please wrote:
| really cool! fyi, i'm having trouble clicking on certain cells in
| the demo.
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| akickinthestone wrote:
| Has anyone tried asking open.ai for spreadsheet formulas?
| patife wrote:
| Yes ASK_OPENAI("write a spreadsheet formula that averages
| values in column A if column C equals Facebook")
|
| That worked for me!
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _Rows.com - Spreadsheet that supports external API integration
| and collaboration_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29171490 - Nov 2021 (75
| comments)
| choraria wrote:
| When are webhooks going to be released? Webhooks inside a
| spreadsheet would be :fire: (looks like emojis don't work on HN,
| SMH).
| ent101 wrote:
| also subscription via websockets! it's an interesting new
| trend.
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| [deleted]
| xnx wrote:
| There's an add-on for Google Sheets that does this:
| https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/webhooks_for_sh...
| danielvaughn wrote:
| lol this is _dangerous_
|
| I know what I'm going to be playing around with this weekend
| :p
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