Treesheets had this for over 15 years now. https://strlen.com/treesheets/

drfloyd51 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But treesheets isn’t used by millions of office workers across the globe. I doubt treesheets is know by 2% of the HN audience. So it just doesn’t make the news.

Or was the point you knew an obscure fact about an obscure application?

	▲	seb1204 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same applies to many of the more elaborate usages of Excel I'd argue. Only few dive deep
	▲	bulletsvshumans 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I suppose it shows that it's not an outright innovation in this space, for whatever that is worth.

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qubex 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And Lotus Improv ‘solved’ spreadsheets about thirty-five years ago. So?

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NuclearPM 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So?

	▲	qubex 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess “so nothing”. The model is fundamentally broken. Adding a third dimension to certain cells by giving them a new type (‘tuple’, ‘list’?) whilst also having multiple sheets that aren’t (really) addressable is a disaster for the semantics.