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Tinysheet
- sys13 5y agoAdded '1' to A1. In B1 I added '=A1'. Didn't work :(
- sverhagen 5y agoWorked fine for me. Ha, spurious bugs, even worse...
- FascistDonut 5y agoWorked for me too.
- IncRnd 5y agoIt worked for me.
- anyfactor 5y agoLove this. This is exactly something what I have been looking for ages. I find smartphone solutions - calculators to be annoying, scientific calculators too much, spreadsheets to be too slow. This is what I need.
- CornCobs 5y agoThe discussion here has me thinking of the many times I just use a simple plain text editor or notes app on my phone, when what I really needed was a lightning fast, minimal spreadsheet. Does anyone know of such a software? Can read multiple types (csv/xlsx/maybe even m files or npy?), Does not do automatic conversions, simple editing and minimal calculation capabilities? Sort of the vim/notepad++ of spreadsheets
- fdgdd 5y agosc-im (https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/)? It might have too many or too few features, depending on your point of view.
- godDLL 5y agoIt was too crashy for me in the end. Loved it before I got tired of the crashiness.
- kall 5y agoThere are the "calculator notepad" apps like Soulver, Calca, Numi and I‘m sure some open source options as well. I use Calca on my phone quite a bit, but something with an actual table could be interesting.
- agumonkey 5y agoIt's brilliant. You could add gesture support for selection and extrapolation
- wickchuck 5y agoWhere is the data for this stored? I was inspecting and didn't see anything in Local Storage, Session Storage, nothing on the network tab. Hit refresh thought everything would be wiped, but all my data was still there!
- mmcwilliams 5y agoIt appears to be stored in the url. As you update the cells there's an encoded # variable that, when removed, wipes the table.
- RotaryTelephone 5y agoBut... URLs have a char length limit :x
- recursive 5y agoAnd this has a cell limit. Perfectly aligned.
- mmahemoff 5y agoAnd if you put the URL into a URL shortener, you can (ab)use it as cloud storage for your spreadsheet. I once did some checks and found at least one shortener could store a URL string of at least 65KB [1]. That was in 2009. Not sure where those shortener limits are all at today - I suspect the industry dynamics changed when Twitter introduced its built-in shortener. 1. https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database/ https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database...
- jstrieb 5y agoThe limits are definitely shorter now. I also checked when I created URL Pages [0], which hosts entire web pages in the URL. However there is a link shortener that is quietly hosted by GitHub called https://git.io https://git.io that doesn't seem to have a length limit as far as I've discovered. [1] 0: https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages 1: https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/git-io https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/git-io
- r00fus 5y agoIs there any way to add columns or rows?
- ldjb 5y agoI spent several minutes trying to figure out how to add columns or rows, but it turns out you can't. It's a 'tiny sheet', after all.
- ketralnis 5y agoBlank page on firefox. About half the time it flashes a UI before going to blank white, and half the time it starts out blank white.
- thrdbndndn 5y agoIt works flawlessly here on Firefox. In general, I recommend anyone that reports something is broken on their brower to at least try it in a guest profile (i.e. with all extensions disabled, all settings being default) first. The author can't really catch the issue if it's caused by certain extensions/block rules/non-default settings.
- beezle 5y agoIt starts with a blank white screen on Firefox with no-script. Author should have a check that js is enabled if website is completely dependent upon it. If it is not, an html message of some sort is standard.
- thrdbndndn 5y agoThen say it. "This site does not work without JS" is a totally valid statement (I don't know what the point is though). No one knows GP (or you) runs their browsers with what extensions if they didn't explicitly mention it.
- istjohn 5y agoServing a blank white screen to user agents without JS is the internationally understood symbol for "This webpage requires JS." "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"
- beezle 5y agoThe webstandard is to use a noscript tag with a message of some kind. A white screen is a white screen. It has more interpretations than you think, including a dead website.
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- jvanderbot 5y agoI love this. A bit cumbersome to add equations. Consider a few quick-populated options with common ones?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoBut... why? Is there anyone who opens a classic spreadsheet software (from excel to google sheets) and says "I need something limited with less cells!"?
- red_hare 5y agoIt seems like it's mobile-first. On desktop it's kind of silly compared to google sheets, but open it on a phone and it's a joy to use for something quick and screenshot vs google sheets.
- 28mm 5y agoto create discussion/controversy and therefore attention for the consultancy that created it (postlight).
- ldjb 5y agoThey do touch upon the rationale in their announcement blog post [0] but I do struggle to think of specific use cases. [0] https://postlight.com/insights/introducing-tinysheet https://postlight.com/insights/introducing-tinysheet
- threatofrain 5y agoIf this was an embeddable JS library then this would be pretty neat.
- echelon 5y agoAs a personal anecdote, extraneous columns in spreadsheets trigger my OCD. The first thing I do in any spreadsheet is to delete all of columns except for five, then add more if needed. I wish there was an option in Google Sheets to start with fewer columns. I almost never need a full alphabet.
- rakoo 5y agoThis is not targeting people who go to a spreadsheet software first; this is targeting people who need some quick calculation and can use the power of spreadsheet software. Maybe it's a quick forecast of an investment/loan over a few years, maybe it's a list of friends who owe you money for your group trip, maybe it's just the waiter who runs the payments for a 10-person table who all pay differently and they want to note who paid how much and what is left on the total bill. This is just like opening Notepad++ for copy-pasting something quickly instead of opening Word. I can see a lot of uses for that kind of "quick spreadsheeting" that don't require you to fire a full-blown editor.
- ToJans 5y agoI made something similar for a talk I used to give a few years ago [0]; including source code[1]. [0] http://tojans.me/vuexel/#/sheets/examplesheet http://tojans.me/vuexel/#/sheets/examplesheet [1] https://github.com/ToJans/vuexel https://github.com/ToJans/vuexel
- yunruse 5y agoMuch in the same vein, but less of a toy, Tinymonth [0] has binary calendars - you just click on a day to toggle if it's part of an event or not. No .ics export that would really make it perfect, but it still seems extremely convenient in certain use cases. Oh, and also from Postlight's labs, Textmoji [1] is a cute generator of custom emojis for Slack or Discord or whatnot. [0] https://tinymonth.com/ https://tinymonth.com/ [1] https://textmoji.app/ https://textmoji.app/
- Amorymeltzer 5y agoSubmitted tinymonth[0] a couple days ago, ya never know what'll take off! 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967515
- someelephant 5y agoFor quick calcs I like http://notepadcalculator.com/ http://notepadcalculator.com/
- jotux 5y agoSimilar: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/
- Vingdoloras 5y agoI'm a big fan of https://soulver.app/ https://soulver.app/ as a mobile app (not a heavy Mac user, but if I was, I'd get the Mac version too). Sadly it's not available on Windows at all, and the mobile version is currently not on the App Store either (they're working on a major update and apparently you can still get the old one via TestFlight, but I just kept the old one installed on my phone). This app looks like a great alternative! I will definitely be checking it out.
- kall 5y agohttp://calca.io http://calca.io is a decent alternative that‘s available on Windows and still maintained on mobile.
- pugworthy 5y agoDon't get me wrong, I like the notebook look, but I literally just Google math equations and such things all the time. It's embarrassing how much I rely on Google to just do fairly basic math or unit conversion.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoIt's a reflection of how powerful a text input box is as an interface.
- collinvandyck76 5y agoVery cool idea! Too many bugs brought me back down to earth, but regardless I love neat things like this.
- mmastrac 5y agoA few years back a few of us code golfed a sheet down to ~250 bytes. Not quite as full-featured, but loads of fun to shave off bytes. http://xem.github.io/sheet/ http://xem.github.io/sheet/
- esnard 5y agoThe commented source code was very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing! https://github.com/xem/sheet/blob/gh-pages/full-commented.html https://github.com/xem/sheet/blob/gh-pages/full-commented.ht...
- ghusbands 5y agoA fun toy, sure, but a spreadsheet that self-destructs when you enter a formula of =o=0 and otherwise evaluates arbitrary JS is hardly comparable to an ostensibly-robust small-area spreadsheet.
- rg111 5y agoThis comment is in the light of other comments of what they do when they need to do similar calculation. I just pull up a Python REPL and doing such calculations is really easy.
- smt88 5y agoA real calculator app is better if it's written to do math the way a human expects (which Python isn't[1]) 1. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/floating-point-error-in-python/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/floating-point-error-in-python...
- cpach 5y agoI use bc :)
- m12k 5y agoOn macOS I use Spotlight (cmd-space) to do one-line calculations or unit/currency conversion.
- croes 5y agoOn mobile Chrome column B only has the number keyboard for me.
- throwaway4good 5y agoWhy only two columns? Or am I missing something?
- sedlich 5y agoIt is called: tiny!
- tanin 5y agoFor programmers, how about using SQL instead? https://superintendent.app https://superintendent.app Anyway, the design of Tinysheet looks refined and slick. Very nice job.
- lelandfe 5y agoThis looks nice but the yearly pricing model puts me off. I suppose it’s really targeted at organizations though.
- asadlionpk 5y agoIs there an open source version of this?
- rukshn 5y agoI’m working a similar thing but open source you can check it out at https://github.com/rukshn/hypertables https://github.com/rukshn/hypertables However I haven’t been able to contribute lately because I was helping to build a covid health information system as part of my masters
- Vingdoloras 5y agoThis seems aggressively overpriced for what looks like a very simple GUI on top of sqlite?
- mwidell 5y agoIf you like this you will probably also love the MacOS app called Numi. I sure do. https://numi.app/ https://numi.app/
- tehbeard 5y agoInteresting, but the =AVG() and I suspect other functions might have a flaw. When I tried =AVG(B1:B4), with one value in B1 (6), it returned 1.5 as the average. edit: ah, just AVG() then, the scroll didn't work on my first try so I assumed it only showed SUM() and AVG() was just a "hidden" function.
- huhtenberg 5y agoIt has no reference loop detection. A bit of an edge case, granted, but still. Enter: A1: =A2+1 A2: =A1 Then hit up/down/left/right arrows.
- ArtTimeInvestor 5y agoIs there somethin like this that is open source?