Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, & AI (WASM and WebGL)

Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by JulianWasTaken on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:37PM (#35461411)

Just a marketing note, as I haven't tried to use this yet, but starting the feature list on the page with "pinch to zoom" striked me as pretty odd. Sheets (Google or Excel) already do this, and even if they didn't I don't personally find it to be a killer feature anyhow. I know the point is pinch to zoom + infinite sheet, but the pinch to zoom doesn't strike me as interesting there from a marketing perspective.

To pick something else -- I again haven't used it yet and might not be in the target market as I don't find myself saying "I wish my spreadsheets had more functionality" -- but if I were, I'd probably lead with more of the flexibility or collaboration functionality (e.g. "write Python not VB", even though Google Sheets lets you write JS at this point.)

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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by davidkircos on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:52PM (#35461569)

Good point - we will move things around on the marketing site.

Google Sheets does not have pinch to zoom. Maybe Excel does on some platforms, it doesn't on 365. The only other spreadsheet I know with decent pinch to zoom support is Numbers on mac.

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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by JulianWasTaken on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:19PM (#35461838)

I'm not sure what you mean by not having it, maybe you mean something different than what I'd usually mean -- on platforms I use it (Android), Google Sheets definitely has pinch to zoom (and it's been awhile since I've used Excel but I was pretty sure it did too -- the docs confirm it indeed does: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-for-android...).

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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by ajmurmann on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:30AM (#35464138)

Same for the Google Sheets app on iOS.

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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by swyx on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:22AM (#35479058)

have you tried pinching on quadratic? it's smooth as butter/Figma, not at all like on gsheets

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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python,... by JulianWasTaken on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:32PM (#35489916)

I have not but I honestly don't find it to bother me on gsheets whatsoever (I've never thought twice about it until now. Data entry is way way more annoying on gsheets than navigating is).

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