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by ozgooen 3822 days ago
Sorry to hear about Intercom, will investigate shortly. I heard someone else had a similar issue.

In response to your points:

- Other distribution types are the #1 most requested feature at this time. Binary distributions are possible using functions instead of the built in distributions, though obviously not intuitive. It's built using math.js, which has several random functions of different kinds. (In this case, you could use '=randomInt(0,1)' to produce a coin flip.

http://getguesstimate.com/models/365

- The arbitrary two-letter codes were simply the easiest thing to begin with. I started with something derived from the names, but this presented problems with cells with empty names, especially ones that started empty and later become non-empty. Excel has a pretty sophisticated model for referencing cells. For the sake of getting something shipped, I started with a very simple one. Definitely an area to improve.

- I'd love to talk sometime. I'm also in SF, will send you an email. Thanks for the advice!

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Cool, thanks! Yeah, it was not obvious you could create new distribution types with random functions. I didn't look at functions too closely because I didn't expect distributions to be there. Makes sense, though, thanks!

Re the two-letter codes, I totally get doing the simple thing just to launch and get it out there. We face a similar problem in Fieldbook, by the way. Would be happy to explain how our solution works sometime.