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Founder of https://inflex.io
I use this account to wear my “Inflex” hat while talking about topics related to spreadsheets, reactive design, etc.
I use this account to wear my “Inflex” hat while talking about topics related to spreadsheets, reactive design, etc.
Cheers! Work stalled since having a baby a year ago, but I’m sure I’ll be able to return to it eventually.
The UI is implemented using Halogen, a front end library for PureScript. That handles redisplay when recalculation happens. That’s more like React or Elm. Rather, I mean exposing an FRP API to people using the Inflex…
I'll be adding this to Inflex (https://inflex.io/), I have the design worked out on paper. (But I'll be open sourcing it first and releasing as a desktop app, and then get back to dev.) It's also helpful to think of FRP…
I follow https://documentation.divio.com/ > There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. > > They are:…
Thanks for sharing. I just realized your use case could fit quite neatly into Inflex (my app, not open for signups, but has a “try” sandbox), a use case I never considered. I have an unexposed WIP type of cell that is a…
In Inflex decimals are not floating point, they’re fixed precision. So 0.1+0.2=0.3 produces #true. You can try by hitting the Formula button here: https://inflex.io/try And you can choose an arbitrary level of…
Inflex (https://inflex.io/) does this bidirectional editing: you can edit any data structure as either a graphical object or the associated code, and the other one updates appropriately. (See e.g.…
I would add that any tool looking to replace Excel will be build on some very powerful but very primitive foundations, I’m order to compete with that flexibility. It’ll never be about adding a special “view” like…
I’m trying my best to create such a product. What you’re describing is something that (1) amateur spreadsheeters can use, (2) the power users, and (3) programmers, will be able to use and not feel out of their depth or…
My business is based in the UK which is compatible with EU’s GDPR, so it’s fine to be hosted there.
My reactive workspace tool aka spreadsheet replacement (Inflex) is SaaS, but I’ve also considered offering a completely downloadable tool for a one off price. I think if ever get a substantial user base and people ask…
> Another thought along these lines: quite a lot of my spreadsheet use involves doing calculations on whole columns. This is really painful in Excel, where I have to manually select just the right areas of my sheet,…
This in principle accurate, but the real story is less polished. If you look through the AirTable forums, you’ll see lots of cases where users are asking how to do a thing, and are told to abandon the highly limited…
See my app for an implementation of this.
It does have limited calc, but I tend to think of it as more of an afterthought. The scripting is “very incomplete” in the words of the author, consider e.g. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/37
I think Excel fails when it comes to other natural types of data such as trees, graphs, even arrays or records. It’s terrible at all of them. It’s not relational, and it’s not inductive, has no sum types, or anything.…
While this seems like a relevant thread, I’ll drop in our app too. Our approach is wide enough that “reactive rich text” like Patera is a subset of our functionality. See our Twitter feed for recent examples:…