DSS, a lightweight TUI spreadsheet editor and dashboard in Go
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Hi there, I tried to build a CLI tool to edit and visualize Excel/CSV files directly in the terminal, I called it "dss".I did it for fun to tweak spreadsheet formulas without leaving my terminal or opening heavy GUI apps.It is an interactive editor of sheets with charts and formula engine diretly in TUI. The formula engine is handmaded but I'd like to improve it.I copied a lot from my previous Datacmd project and from Termdash repo. Hoping to receive some feedback.
HN · launched Apr 26, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 1 view
Niche: spreadsheet tools and extensions · 138 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Building a terminal UI spreadsheet in Go is readily achievable with LLM coding using existing TUI frameworks like Bubbletea or tview paired with standard open-source formula evaluation libraries.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #38 of 80 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 174 days after the earliest competitor.
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