Title: Hey HN. I wanted to share an update to our previous thread, “Notion with problem solving capabilities”.<p>The Decipad public beta is now live. You can try it for free here. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decipad.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decipad.com&#x2F;</a><p>We started building Decipad to make numbers more expressive and playful. It’s a notebook environment where you can combine text, numbers, data and calculations into a story.<p>Our goal is to help people communicate with numbers more effectively and collaborate across diverse backgrounds. It’s feels a bit like Notion, but it’s for building interactive models and reports.<p>A few things we’ve been addressing building Decipad…<p>- A friendly modelling experience: You can express variables and calculations with quasi-natural language and connect them with tables, charts, pivot tables and other widgets.<p>- Unit expression: we built Decipad on a powerful unit system. You can assign labels and units to your data, like, `Cost = $5 per month per seat.`<p>- Dimensional Categories: Expressing relationships between variables and categories, making a model easy to adapt. We wrote about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decipad.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;breaking-the-grid-overcoming-dimensional-constraints-in-spreadsheets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decipad.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;breaking-the-grid-overcoming-di...</a><p>- Connecting Data: Ability to connect data sources directly to your notebook. Right now, it’s intended for technical users. You can use JS and SQL to run a query.<p>We’re still exploring several areas like support for large data sets and building more UX interactions on top of our language to make modeling even more approachable and collaborative.<p>We would love to get feedback or any thoughts on our approach.
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