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Hi HN — I built fin123 after repeatedly seeing trading desks rewrite spreadsheet logic inside application code. Typical workflow today: Analyst builds Excel m
by jedreckoning 7mo ago
Hi HN — I built fin123 after repeatedly seeing trading desks rewrite spreadsheet logic inside application code.
Typical workflow today:
Analyst builds Excel model
Developer rewrites formulas in Python / JS Application table
That rewrite step is painful and error-prone and endless.
fin123 takes a different approach: the worksheet itself is the artifact:
Worksheet spec...
Compiled worksheet (deterministic artifact)...
Application embeds the viewer
Design goals:
- deterministic builds
- offline computation
- finance-safe joins and lookups
- Polars-backed table evaluation
- explicit lifecycle: commit, build, verify, release
The core engine is open source (Apache-2.0) and runs fully locally.
Happy to answer questions.