[zdrummond]

I wish things like this would start of as an open-source and/or stand-alone app. It looks great, and I want to play with it. But Excel is at it's core used for very sensitive data. Financials, budgets, customer lists, biz plans, etc.

How and why should I trust a brand-new startup? Doubly so when they don't even list security in their docs.

tl;dr; I love the idea, looks like a great implementation, please let me demo (and then ideally purchase) an on-prem version.

[dvdhsu]

Thanks! I agree -- we've literally been writing the docs all throughout the night, and don't expect this to be used by any customers yet :)

Security is definitely a concern when we have access to your data. In the coming week, we'll definitely open-source the backend and allow it to be deployed via Docker. We're also thinking about doing a complete on-prem solution -- email me if you're interested! (email in HN profile)

Thanks for the feedback!

+ write privacy / security policies to guarantee we never see nor touch your data; coming soon

[supercoder]

You can't just 'promise' you'll never touch someone's data. You have to make it impossible in the design of the technology

[majewsky]

For companies, it's often enough if you're legally bound to not touch data, or else cough up a sufficiently high compensation.

[dvdhsu]

That will be the case with our on-prem version. The backend is open sourced, so you can audit the code yourself. You still use our frontend, but you can be sure we won’t be stealing your data, since you can just open DevTools and see whether we’re making dodgy network requests to our server.