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Re:Show HN: Treesum – Replace MS Excel/Project with a Code Editor on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:59PM (#50074949)
After many of years of thinking about this idea it only took a few months of help from AI to make it a reality. It's just a proof of concept but I'm curious if others prefer to think in trees, too.

Show HN: Treesum – Replace MS Excel/Project with a Code Editor

Posted by mallahan on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:55PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.treesum.app/

# IntroThe goal of this software is to make it easy to get the plan that's in your head onto the page. Start with the outline then add details. Then more details. Then numbers: costs, time, quantities. Then organize and categorize with #tags. All the sums, graphs and pivot table functionality happens automatically in the Calcs, Timeline, Stats views. And everything looks nice without you having...

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Re:Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games on Sunday April 19, 2026 @09:47PM (#47829463)
This is great. I recently asked AI how many software devs played hockey. It estimated 25k - 50k globally. It also called it a 'prestige sport' which never occurred to me (what with all the guys with missing teeth). But the cost of playing is getting significant. Still the most fun sport to play and watch.

Thanks for this - TUI is awesome.

Re:A critique of project management software on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:58PM (#28406648)
It looks great - it seems to add dashboard functionality to the infinite nesting idea of workflowy.com which gets the nesting right, but is missing metadata & dashboard tools (and an API).
Re:Advice for New Managers and AMA with Aaron Epstein of Creative Market on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:46AM (#12698488)
Thanks for this. Very concise and covers a the important stuff. I've shared it with my team and asked them to let me know if I'm not delivering or could approve on any of the points you cover.