Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

Re:Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents a... by matthewgapp on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:50PM (#48900523)

Also, we've designed the product so it costs us zero dollars to run :)

having zero marginal cost is nice and allows us to do things that others can't

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Re:Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents a... by htrp on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:30PM (#48900816)

Is this because your free customers bring their own ai/tokens?

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Re:Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents a... by njaremko on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:43PM (#48900913)

Yeah, we're not providing subsidized AI to people. It costs us nothing to give people a great, computer-use friendly, native spreadsheet app

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Re:Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents a... by bathtub365 on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:29PM (#48901188)

How does that work, do you not pay the developers who build and maintain this software?

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Re:Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents a... by njaremko on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:43PM (#48901284)

I'm one of those developers :)

I linked in this thread, and Matt replied above in this thread, but we charge companies making >$100M in revenue for using Nobie to provide a service to users, or for using it to help train models.

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