Some tooling work for visualizations and for showing the workings will be released in the next weeks.
There are no positive money flows; I've spent many years experimenting, developing, and now 1 year after a public release the twitter page where I make announcements has 24 followers: https://twitter.com/calculang
I'm a modelling consultant - I work with numbers, I think they should be simple, but they are disjointed across systems and entities and programming languages and spreadsheets. The friction accumulates everywhere: to get a simple result, to follow the workings, to do any analysis, to share one or the other.
calculang can consolidate calculations/numbers and is also a tool for transparency, understanding, and education.
I haven't done introductory documentation beyond the technical README which I think is vague (feedback accepted), and I plan to do a Show HN introduction to the community when I fix key snags: documentation among them.
For me the project is rewarding on many levels. In my client work - mostly financial sector - there is usually limited scope to take a really fresh perspective. There are no restraints here, it is useful to broaden my interests and thoughts in modelling, visualization, and wider more-grounded things like education and transparency, and I also get to be enthusiastic about a project that's tangible and simple at its core.
In other words, plenty of positive flows besides the direct $ number :)
I've made some examples here: https://observablehq.com/collection/@declann/calculang
Some tooling work for visualizations and for showing the workings will be released in the next weeks.
There are no positive money flows; I've spent many years experimenting, developing, and now 1 year after a public release the twitter page where I make announcements has 24 followers: https://twitter.com/calculang
I'm a modelling consultant - I work with numbers, I think they should be simple, but they are disjointed across systems and entities and programming languages and spreadsheets. The friction accumulates everywhere: to get a simple result, to follow the workings, to do any analysis, to share one or the other. calculang can consolidate calculations/numbers and is also a tool for transparency, understanding, and education.
I haven't done introductory documentation beyond the technical README which I think is vague (feedback accepted), and I plan to do a Show HN introduction to the community when I fix key snags: documentation among them.
For me the project is rewarding on many levels. In my client work - mostly financial sector - there is usually limited scope to take a really fresh perspective. There are no restraints here, it is useful to broaden my interests and thoughts in modelling, visualization, and wider more-grounded things like education and transparency, and I also get to be enthusiastic about a project that's tangible and simple at its core. In other words, plenty of positive flows besides the direct $ number :)