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Recalc

Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals

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I built this because it was useful for me when building evals/benchmarks, and I decided to put it up for free for others. The goal was quite simple, make it easy to use a lead claude code / codex session in a panel on the side, while allowing every cell to also be a terminal session running claude/codex, and make it possible to continue a session in an actual terminal window if I needed to. They can all talk to each other using cells on the grid, named cells, or the MCP server that effectively glues the app together. I also found it useful for managing context within related but disparate sessions.My real benchmark runs with recalc are internal to my startup, so to demonstrate some of the functionality I built a small FDA Bench with the tool (obtain and put together dossier's of FDA submissions, and see if a harnessed Claude could have accurately predicted pass/fail): https://github.com/sshah03/recalc#a-model-benchmarkIt is still very much a work in progress, but given the versatility of spreadsheet apps, wanted to see how others see themselves using it and what doesn't exist that would be useful to them. Currently runs locally on macs, linux as well but that's less tested, and Windows hasn't been tested at all so that'll come in the future.

HN · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 37 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views

Niche: spreadsheet tools and extensions · 138 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes A spreadsheet grid where cells host terminal sessions is a web UI wrapping xterm.js and a pty backend that launches the existing Claude Code and Codex CLIs. Those CLIs do the hard work, so a solo builder can vibe-code it.

Discussion

8 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Copilot in Excel, TrueCalc

Concerns raised: Cell references break on row insert or delete, Agent re-runs may produce output differing from displayed values, Breaks spreadsheet users' expectation that references update automatically

Feature requests: Named cells that auto-update on row insert or delete

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #71 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.

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