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I've been working on Decipad. It's a low-code notebook to tell stories with numbers and build interactive models. It's like Notion with spreadsheet-like capabilities. You can build and publish interactive notebooks for things like forecasting, burn rate, a mortgage calculator, or just something fun.

We're testing with early access users. Would be grateful for any feedback if you're interested! Decipad.com

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Is there any way to try it out interactively without having to sign up for early access? When I loaded the website and I read what it said about changing Discount Rate, I immediately tried clicking around to actually do that and see the change but of course it didn't work.

Right now, access is limited as we continue to build. We are collaborating with a small group of early access users from our community as we develop certain use cases and features. We will be expanding access in the coming months as we expand to new use cases and capabilities.

FYI,

"This site has been reported as unsafe Hosted by www.decipad.com Microsoft recommends you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to Microsoft for containing phishing threats which may try to steal personal or financial information."

Using Edge on Windows with SmartScreen turned on.

Is this like formulas (https://www.notion.so/help/formulas) on steroids?

I think it's more like https://causal.app

Our goal is to make it powerful enough to support a range of modeling and calculation needs, from a financial modeling to building a recipe (e.g. https://dev.decipad.com/n/The-Saturday-White-Bread%3A9JQMbgK...)! We wrote our formula language to support a broad range of modeling use cases. We’re currently testing that language with a small group. Is there any particular use case you would be interested in using a more powerful formula language for?

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