CubeWeaver

Productivity

multidimensional spreadsheet

SHOW HN2020

122points
40comments
#526of 3,028 in 2020
Top 18%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.

Design: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for multidimensional data compared with Excel

    From 2 comments
    • Congrats. Nice to see some innovation in the spreadsheet space. Often you need 3D (or more) data and excel sucks as you need to create a pivot table every time. R is good but…
      quickthrower2 on HN
    • This looks tremendously useful; it's easy to imagine its adoption taking off given the obvious benefits over traditional spreadsheets. Thanks for sharing! And good luck! :)
      chrisweekly on HN
  • Fills a gap similar to Lotus Improv and Quantrix

    From 1 comment
    • For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
      qubex on HN

Objections

  • Web-based and cloud hosting is unacceptable for sensitive data

    From 3 comments
    • For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
      qubex on HN
    • Uhm, no. I assure you the powers-that-be in my firm would totally lose their marbles if highly reserved data were crossing out into some web-app hosted who-knows-where and…
      qubex on HN
    • Call me quaint, but I despise software hosted in a cloud and/or accessed through a browser.
      qubex on HN
  • Captcha during registration was hard to pass

    From 1 comment
    • It took me 5 tries to pass your register captcha. Maybe you should try something more human friendly.
      kevincox on HN

Requests

  • On-premise installation for team trials

    From 1 comment
    • I like it, but I want to be able to use it with my team before committing and that requires on premise.
      m1sta_ on HN
  • Fully normalized relational structure option

    From 1 comment
    • The masterdata is stored as JSON to avoid creating/dropping columns and tables as list/columns are added and removed. But an option to have a fully normalized relational…
      egeria_planning on HN

Questions

  • Whether it uses WebAssembly

    From 1 comment
  • Relation to the earlier Egeria submission

    From 1 comment
    • I can see it was previously submitted as Egeria, can you share some info how it has evolved into the new product?
      warpech on HN

Alternatives named

  • Quantrix Modeller and Quantrix Qloud

    From 2 comments
    • For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
      qubex on HN
    • Have you had a chance to check out Quantrix Qloud? Its basically Modeller in the browser, with reduced functionality, though the team is working to expand the feature set each…
      dd82 on HN
  • Lotus Improv

    From 1 comment
    • For somebody who misses Lotus Improv, used Quantrix Modeller, and has evaluated XCubes, this feels about right. Unfortunately web-based solution (particularly those that cannot…
      qubex on HN
  • Mint Data

    From 1 comment
    • We use "nested spreadsheets" that can live in any cell, and combined with aggregate functions like GROUP_BY() we're able to get this behavior. Would be genuinely curious -- would…
      denster on HN
  • IBM Cognos TM1 / cloudy TM1

    From 1 comment
    • cloudy tm1 is quite affordable now, what is the winning point?
      silw001 on HN

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