Plastron – A spreadsheet you grow into an app, in one index.html

Show HN: Plastron – A spreadsheet you grow into an app, in one index.html

Plastron – A spreadsheet you grow into an app, in one index.html is a business in show hn launch.

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Plastron is a spreadsheet starting with one cel (元) whose formula generates the a readme DOM element but you can make sheets of cels with formulas like =cels(8, 5). It's a single index.html — no build, no server, no install — so it runs locally, offline, and free. Excel is maybe the most useful software ever written, but the moment a sheet wants to be a real app — a UI, a file, a database, something to share — you fall off a cliff and rewrite it as "a real application" (framework + backend + deploy), usually after pleading with IT over licenses. Meanwhile every browser already runs JS, WASM, SQLite, and a filesystem API. An index.html should be all you need.Things to try on the page: =cels(

Within the show hn launch space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

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Website: plastron.ca