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Ask HN: Review My Startup - Hypernumbers The Team Spreadsheet

Please review my startup: http://hypernumbers.com We finally have a ‘quantum of utility’ - a product like a spreadsheet but better at doing some things... I would love to get your thoughts and opinions on what a native-web spreadsheet should be like - and in which ways hypernumbers meets (or fails to meet) your expectations. BACK STORY When I started writing this submission I googled for Paul Graham’s 'Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund' No 22 - web spreadsheet ( http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html ) from 2008 – so I could point out we started full time work on it in 2007. Through the miracle of Google I found this article of Paul’s from 2005 ( http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html ) which predates us. I have no idea if I read that article at the time :( That got me thinking. Reading Paul’s articles today it all seems so simple and obvious

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Please review my startup: http://hypernumbers.com We finally have a ‘quantum of utility’ - a product like a spreadsheet but better at doing some things... I would love to get your thoughts and opinions on what a native-web spreadsheet should be like - and in which ways

Kind
startup
Status
Shut down
Inventor
gordonguthrie
Ended
2010
Source
hackernews
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