August 3, 2021

First demo

Hey everyone!

This is my first post to the newsletter! Let me know if something seems off about the newsletter itself, or if I'm sending too many updates.

I've been hard at work on RunTheNumbers (tentative name for the app - let me know what you think!) and I wanted to share some progress I've made on the app.

Here's a demo video I recorded: https://youtu.be/8p1iycxET4M

I'll admit I'm a bit nervous about sharing this, so some feedback on whether the app looks amateurish or generally if seeing this video increases or decreases your confidence in the project would be helpful.

Specific features I got working today:

• Text cells, with markdown-style headers supported
• A cell starts out as a text cell, then converts to a formula cell when pressing =.
• Clicking below the last item now creates a new cell at the bottom. Subtle, but adds a lot to the nature "document" feel
• Error UI looks much nicer and I've removed some debug info from errors

Stephen