More a practice than a project, but I'm working on using voice as much as possible to interact with computers. This started with mapping the Tap Assistance on my phone to ChatGPT voice, then vibe coding better voice transcription for my computer, then shifting increasing amounts of work to Claude Remote control, etc.
This is less of a latency/efficiency thing and more about disconnecting the eyes from a screen and fingers from a keyboard. The upside is more walking, flow and creativity.
For the non-coders here, you can query and analyze all of play.clickhouse.com in Sourcetable's chat interface. You can also ask it for the code produced so you can copy/paste that back into the Clickhouse interface.
I second this. Spreadsheets are the primary tool used for 15% of the U.S. economy. Productivity improvements will affect hundreds of millions of users globally. Each increment in progress is a massive time save and value add.
The criticisms broadly fall between "spreadsheets are bad" and "AI will cause more trouble than it solves".
This release is a dot in a trend towards everyone having a Goldman-Sachs level analyst at their disposal 24/7. This is a huge deal for the average person or business. Our expectation (disclaimer: I work in this space) is that spreadsheet intelligence will soon be a solved problem. The "harder" problem is the instruction set and human <> machine prompting.
For the "spreadsheets are bad" crowd -- sure, they have problems, but users have spoken and they are the preferred interface for analysis, project management and lightweight database work globally. All solutions to "the spreadsheet problem" come with their own UX and usability tradeoffs, so it'a a balance.
Congrats to the Claude team and looking forward to the next release!
For now we're pretty obsessed with the spreadsheet interface, but we do think of Sourcetable as a spreadsheet-based application platform, so there multi-modal plans in the future.
For now, one fun experience is loading the app on Mobile and just talking to your database. It's the same as talking from a desktop but can feel far more natural and the form factor let's you get quick business answers on the go.
Separate to the Superagents launch here, LLMs are excellent for keyword optimizations since the compression/summary/synthesis essentially comes for free out of the box. This isn't unique to Sourcetable, but I do find it extremely pleasant that vector analysis with LLMs is easy, not hard. SEM/SEO is all just math at the end of the day.
The main things we bring to the table are that the AI can write code and handle much larger datasets than fit in ChatGPT, etc., and also that Superagents you can pipe your data in without code or SaaS interface kludge, so you can ask much more complicated questions than you usually might if you're not great at cleaning, filtering or analyzing data.
As naive as this may sound, when I first moved to America and was deciding where to base myself, I first had to learn that there was a difference between Silicon Valley (i.e. Peninsula / South Bay) and San Francisco.
From there, San Francisco looks quite small, but many neighborhoods are worlds away from the action - Outer Richmond is not the density of networks you are looking for, for example (better than rest of world, suboptimal for SF).
Co-locating close to the center of these dense founder networks is the best way maximize luck and opportunity.
This map isn't perfect, but it makes it pretty obvious where you should move if you're interested in startups.
Career wise, moving to "the center of the network" is still the best decision I ever made.
Sourcetable.com | Product Marketing (contract) | San Francisco
We're building a spreadsheet-based operating system for the web, although on first touch Sourcetable feels more like Excel Copilot or "Cursor for spreadsheets".
We're looking for one Product Marketer to join our team in a part-time contract capacity in the Bay Area (San Francisco preferred). The requirement are that you need to be great at video storytelling and also be strong at spreadsheets & analysis.
Everyone on our team codes, and you should too. There's no technical requirement for the role, per-se, but we have found it is better this way.
Sourcetable | Product Education (Contract) | San Francisco, U.S., or Australia.
Sourcetable is building a spreadsheet-based analyst. Talk to the computer, tell it what you want done, and it does the work for you.
This is a new UX, and we're looking for a great product educator to join our team to tell that story and show people how it's done.
You need to be exceptional at making product education videos. These particular videos will be related to using AI for spreadsheet analysis and ops work, flexing up into leveraging any python library you can think of for analysis and other shenanigans. That's the gig.
If you need a lot of guidance it will not be a good fit.
Sourcetable | San Francisco | Full Time | Staff Engineer (React/Python)
Sourcetable is building an AI spreadsheet for the next billion users, both human and AI. We are leaders in autonomous spreadsheets, and you'll be working on fun stuff like this:
Sourcetable is a networked spreadsheet that makes it easy to create models from live database data, without code.
We are looking for a senior frontend developer to join our team working on the React.js codebase. You would be person number 5, working alongside experienced developers and founders who have built, scaled and sold companies.
We're a fully remote company that works on Pacific Time. You should be based in the Americas. (Australia, China, Europe are all "too remote" for our stage as we need timezone overlap.)
First and foremost, you should be a strong developer. The ideal candidate has experience working at an early stage startup.
Compensation: cash, excellent healthcare, meaningful equity and plenty of interesting problems to solve.