Lukas1994
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working on https://causal.app
email: [email protected]
twitter: @lukaskoebis
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Comment · 2 years 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 any shortcuts. Ideally, you find an accountant that is familiar with this setup.
Comment · 2 years 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!
Comment · 2 years 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.
Comment · 2 years 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 to build our own eventually. Doing that when you start out is probably not worth it though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks @dang!
Comment · 2 years ago
With our current growth rate and no additional hiring we would’ve been profitable in less than 12 months :)
Comment · 2 years 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]. In 2022 we shared how we scaled our calculation engine to billions of cells [3] and a few months ago we had a successful Show HN of Causal 2.0 [4]
The product is now used by 100s of startups (many YC companies) and we're exited for the next chapter fo faster GTM with Lucanet!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704418
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21625974
Comment · 2 years ago
Founder of Causal here. We’re happy to give free access for personal use. You can email me lukas (at) causal.app
Comment · 2 years ago
Does this generate type-safe code? We ended up using https://www.hypertune.com/ to solve that problem.
Comment · 2 years 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’re working on a more approachable implementation of that paradigm at https://causal.app
Comment · 2 years ago
We built it to find potential issues with your spreadsheet. 80% of Excel models have bugs: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/