Lukas1994

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Grammarly Acquires Superhuman(businesswire.com)
2 points by Lukas1994 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
If you want to do it properly you need to setup an inter-company loan agreement, transfer pricing, you need accountants and tax specialists for both UK and US, ... so the costs will definitely be significant. I don't think there are an
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Probably building our calculation engine - you can read more about it here https://www.causal.app/blog/scaling Rendering grids/tables/charts in the browser is also quite tricky if you want it to be fast!
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
It did make the acquisition process a bit more difficult + US lawyers are more expensive than UK/German lawyers. It's still worth it IMO given how much easier fundraising gets.
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
We bet quite early on AG-Grid and it got us very far. We’ve probably built one of the most customised AG-Grid tables out there. I haven’t checked out Tanstack table much but given that it’s such a core component of the product I would like
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Thanks @dang!
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
With our current growth rate and no additional hiring we would’ve been profitable in less than 12 months :)
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Thanks to the HN community! Everything started with this post from over 5 years ago [1] which gave Taimur and me enough conviction to quit our jobs to work on Causal full-time. A few months later we launched an Excel sensitivity tool [2]. I
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Causal Joins the Lucanet Group(causal.app)
11 points by Lukas1994 2y ago|8 comments
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Founder of Causal here. We’re happy to give free access for personal use. You can email me lukas (at) causal.app
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Does this generate type-safe code? We ended up using https://www.hypertune.com/ to solve that problem.
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
IMO the better paradigm is coming from enterprise applications like Anaplan. Cells are not the right abstraction to work with numbers. Most of the time you work with multi-dimensional quantities (eg revenue by product, geography, month). We
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Excel Horror Stories(eusprig.org)
2 points by Lukas1994 2y ago|1 comments
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
We built it to find potential issues with your spreadsheet. 80% of Excel models have bugs: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
It'd be great if you can share the model once you've built it. We can add it to our template library :)
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
We have released a few bits actually! https://causal.app/blog/scaling is one of my favourites (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000400 )
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
IMO this still doesn't change the fact that Excel is a 2D grid. Dealing with multi-dimensional data will always be tricky in that paradigm. Also, you'll still have cell references, no version control, no access control, ... Excel
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Great question! Quite often in financial models, you're dealing with "dimensions" (e.g. your revenue is broken down by product, geography, and time). To model this in Excel you have to write complex SUMIF/INDEX/MATC
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by Lukas1994 2y ago
Great stuff! I celebrate everyone who gets the world off SFDC. We recently started using https://attio.com/ — how do you guys compare?
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YC by the Numbers: 2005–2023(my.causal.app)
2 points by Lukas1994 3y ago|0 comments
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Retro.rsvp: 1-click ratings for Google Calendar meetings(retro.rsvp)
1 points by Lukas1994 3y ago|0 comments
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Re-re-reselect – Managing state in React(causal.app)
1 points by Lukas1994 3y ago|0 comments
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by Lukas1994 3y ago
Once we've battle tested our current approach a bit more we can definitely look into open sourcing it :)
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Re-re-reselect: Simplifying React state management(causal.app)
22 points by Lukas1994 3y ago|3 comments
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by Lukas1994 3y ago
We're using Hypertune at https://causal.app for a few months now and it's been great! We have a few feature flags in there but also some more complex typed data for our onboarding modals.
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by Lukas1994 3y ago
We've been using it at causal.app for a few weeks now and both engineers and product people love it. Our onboarding content can now be dynamically changed by non-coders.
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by Lukas1994 4y ago
I know a bunch of startups that are moving their cash/treasury to JP. We're looking into doing the same.
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The Guide to Finance at Seed/Series A(causal.app)
1 points by Lukas1994 4y ago|0 comments
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Cache Oblivious Algorithms(jiahai-feng.github.io)
3 points by Lukas1994 4y ago|0 comments
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A Quick Introduction to SurrealDB(surrealdb.com)
2 points by Lukas1994 4y ago|0 comments

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