matthewgapp

Hey HN, I'm Matt, I founded Jog with Nathan. We spent 50K/month on CI at our last company. Agents are writing a ton of code and making the problem worse so we wanted to fix it from first principles. Jog runs on dedicated hardware - Zen 4/5 chips - in the US and EU. Happy to answer any questions.

join our cult, you will love it.

Yeah we think there is an opportunity to really open up the xlsx runtime. There are a lot of smart people in the world - and we're excited for them to build on top.

we have a CLI and we'll launch SDKs. Every aspect of Nobie will be scriptable. Love that your head is in the same place.

we've fixed a bunch of this which will be out in the next release.

it's a bit hidden and not fully featured. But we do support table references.

You can run cmd + T (or search for create table in the cmd +k menu) on a range to display the create table dialog.

windows is coming

yeah that’s how we think about it

desktop apps are so back

Also, we've designed the product so it costs us zero dollars to run :)

having zero marginal cost is nice and allows us to do things that others can't

agents do a lot better when they can "run" the excel workbook and understand the impact of inputs, and how pixels look when layering on things like conditional formats.

openpyxl is great at what it does, but it’s a file-format library rather than a workbook runtime.

It can insert columns, for example, but it doesn’t maintain dependencies such as formulas, tables, charts, or defined names when doing so. It also doesn’t evaluate formulas.

Nobie runs the workbook like Excel would: it evaluates formulas, maintains workbook semantics through edits, renders the result, and reads and writes the file.

Roughly speaking, Nobie is to an Excel workbook what V8 is to JavaScript. openpyxl is closer to a parser and serializer.

similar vibes, maybe less drama? lol

built from the ground up in rust, with the aim that it's much faster than Excel.

It supports all Excel formulas.

let us know your thoughts. we're shipping updates every day