jackamadeo

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Show HN: Solar Eclipse paths plotted in Google Sheets(docs.google.com)
2 points by jackamadeo 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Google Sheets Add-On to Run Python(workspace.google.com)
4 points by jackamadeo 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackamadeo 3y ago
Co-founder of Neptyne here! We'd be happy to answer questions about how this works, and of course welcome any and all feedback.
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
All excellent points. Right now, Neptyne works much like a Google doc in that it's private to you but is easily sharable to pretty much anyone. If our users are looking for it, a self-hosted option is certainly something we'll exp
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
Thanks! We've talked to a lot of people in hedge funds and investments, and you're right that a lot of them care about a self-hosted solution. This is definitely on our radar as a potential future path for the product.
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
It is true that the people who are most productive today in Neptyne are those who are pretty familiar with Python. Part of our long-term goal is to make this kind of programming more accessible to beginners, and we talk to a lot of people w
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(Neptyne cofounder here) That does sound like a fitting use case. Technically speaking it should be OK with 70k rows, but we've got some optimizations that might need to go out before it performs well. Ideally, you should be limited on
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(Neptyne cofounder here) All great tools to be sure! I am a huge fan of numpy and pandas especially. For plotting in Neptyne I usually opt for plotly over matplotlib/seaborn. Agreed too on the shell -- that's why we built one into
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
Hmm, sorry about that broken flow. We added some last-minute things today to get the skip-signup thing working that might have some bugs :) If you go straight to https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial that should work. W
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(cofounder of Neptyne here) Equals is a great product -- I'm a fan! The main technical difference between us and something like Equals is that we give you a full Python environment (in the form of a Jupyter kernel running in a Docker c
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
We just added a button to let you skip the sign-in for the tutorial: https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(Neptyne cofounder here) That's probably something we should dig more into in the docs, yeah. Neptyne works like a ipython/Jupyter notebook in that everything is in scope all the time. So you can write your code in an imperative w
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(cofounder of Neptyne here) We see Apps Script is a strong signal that this kind of thing is useful. Apps Script adds so much power to Sheets but it could be so much easier to use. With Neptyne, since your spreadsheet engine runs in a Jupyt
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
Thanks for calling that out! We made it possible to skip the sign-up to try our tutorial. https://neptyne.com/neptyne/tutorial should now let you do that
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
It should work. I haven't tried requests-cache exactly but in Neptyne you're running with a Jupyter kernel in a Docker container backend, so you do have a filesystem to work with. That file system is mostly ephemeral though -- whe
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
We hear you and we do want to make it possible to try the tutorial without signing up for an account. We're working on making that possible shortly. I'll update here when that's possible EDIT: this should work now. Just click
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
We don't have a self-host option at the moment. We wanted to build Neptyne as a collaborative platform first, where users could build together and share their work. I wouldn't rule it out for the future though -- a lot will depend
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
Thank you! I do hope you find it useful. To answer your question, it's cloud-only -- we wanted to build Neptyne as a collaborative platform where teams of programmers and non-programmer types could get things done together. I think you
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(cofounder of Neptyne here) Thanks for mentioning this! I came across Resolve One recently in another HN thread. Were you a user yourself? What did you think of it?
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(co-founder of Neptyne here) Our biggest challenge as you say is definitely the fact that lots of users will be entrenched in Excel. Our goal right now is to appeal not to those who are happy in Excel today, but to those who have grown disi
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! You make good points. We'll have a look at how we can improve the landing page.
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(co-founder of Neptyne here) With Google Sheets you get a flavor of JS called Apps Script, a flavor of JS with some limitations. Some ways in which our use of Python differ are: - run Python directly in the spreadsheet cells, not just as an
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by jackamadeo 4y ago
(co-founder of Neptyne here) You're spot on in that, if you're a Python developer, you're probably using Jupyter and/or Streamlit, gradio, etc. and spreadsheet users are most comfortable with Excel-style formulas. What w