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As per usual for the last two years I'm working on an open source spreadsheet engine called IronCalc. It is super exciting. We have a proof of concept at

https://app.ironcalc.com

In the last couple of months my partner and myself quit our jobs to work on that. I am pretty sure that in a year from now the world is going to have a fairly competent spreadsheet alternative.

My capacity is fairly limited but I am trying to build a community around it. Join us!

https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc



How is ironcalc different from other spreadsheets?


From Excel/Google sheets because ot is MIT/Apache 2.

From libre office because it is web first and also an engine first

It's written in Rust and has bindings to different languages. It's extremely light and fast


The world runs on spreadsheets! How do you plan on sustaining the business?


I regrettably don't have a good plan for that. We have a grant from the European Union that will pay our salaries for another year or so.


Congrats! That's pretty cool.

I find in software the more constraints I can find the better the innovation ends up being, and business model is an excellent constraint - even just knowing what a responsible amount of effort is versus the value you anticipate.

Admittedly, I originally misunderstood your product as being more like google sheets - where it becomes a cloud drive of sorts with spreadsheets on top. At which point the risk of losing access to the tool would make adoption very unlikely.




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