Nobie
an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
Details
- External ID
- 48896703
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Nobie
- Website domain
- nobie.com
- Launched
- July 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 96
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9074074074074074
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for ai agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a truly Excel-compatible calculation runtime requires reverse-engineering hundreds of obscure Excel formula semantics, dynamic array behaviors, dependency graph evaluation, and numerical edge cases.
What it would actually take: Building an Excel engine requires implementing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) topological sort engine with dirty-marking and cycle detection, parser combinators for Excel formula syntax, and exact floating-point/type-coercion compatibility across hundreds of built-in functions. Typically implemented in Rust or C++ with WebAssembly compilation, it requires deep compiler design and spreadsheet specification expertise.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Excel, Other spreadsheet platforms (commenters mention their own projects)
Concerns raised: Custom DLL loading and platform-dependent functions not supported, Pivot table creation/editing not yet available, Chart creation/editing not yet available, Windows version not yet launched, Table references not fully discoverable in UI
Feature requests: Auto-create named ranges for tables (like Excel's default behavior), Autocomplete suggestions for named ranges in formulas, Cell name box should display range selections and table references, Table column selection with cursor transformation on header hover, Make all spreadsheet features programmable (formatting, cell scripts, etc)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2303 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #195 of 2304 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mu · hn · 2026-08-02 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Nerve · hn · 2026-05-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- agent-desktop · github · 2026-09-20 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Plain · hn · 2026-04-14 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- agentrun · github · 2026-09-23 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents · hn · 2026-06-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.61
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.