Ask HN: Help me find spreadsheet software I found on HN

Can't help with the tool you are looking for, but there's an old trick from the Lotus 123 days (i.e., the time before spreadsheets gained "tabs") that helps with this problem of adding a row or a column to one table messing up all the other tables.

You arrange your tables diagonally on the sheet, such that no rows or columns of any one table intersect with any other table. You can then add/subtract rows or columns from any one table without changing the others.

I.e., layout your tables like this (hopefully the box-draw artwork comes through):

   ┌─┐
   └─┘
      ┌─┐
      └─┘
         ┌─┐
         └─┘

Not sure what you saw, just making a pure guess, Notion/Quip?

coda.io?

strlen.com/treesheets ?

via hackersearch.net

Apple Numbers?

Grist?

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080951

I have used the words "sheet canvas table" and selected All from "Search" and sorted them by Date: I have the impression what you are looking for is https://nino.app/

Matt Wensing had something like you are describing.

https://usesummit.com/

Row zero?

https://count.co perhaps?

[TreeSheets](https://strlen.com/treesheets/) perhaps

Maybe it was 6gu.nz (site broken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXzeCuUuhU. I wrote it about 5 years ago and probably mentioned it in a couple of comments here. It had draggable tables on the normal 2d grid, with references between them.

Maybe Univer

https://univer.ai/examples

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171216

teable?

www.teable.io

nocodb could be another

So OP, which one was it?

I've been trying to find this as well.. i remember it was tan-beige-gray canvas with connections between these, you could add formulas and even code inside these and generate results and variables which you could use in subsequent cells...

Suggestion: Use Excel (or Google Sheets) and limit yourself to 1 table per worksheet.

--A Microsoft Excel Specialist, Expert, and Master

It was most likely Subset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894939

It appears they are re-engineering their product, as they've taken down their sign up link and their landing page now advertises an upcoming, more traditional spreadsheet product: https://subset.so/

Their docs are still up, however, and has screenshots from their old infinite canvas spreadsheet product: https://docs.subset.so/

I think it might be https://rows.com/product or https://equals.com?

Maybe grid.is?

It's my favourite anyway :)