billylitt's comments

This use case is where we shine. Sheets is a great tool, but its performance is limited by your browser's memory, whereas Row Zero compute is happening in the cloud. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

As much as I love clicking "Add 1000 more rows", we thought continuous scroll might be appreciated :)

Good question - we've heard this feedback before and have some ideas for how to bake alt-shortcuts into the app for the muscle memory crowd. So, not yet, but its very much on our radar.

Row Zero frontend dev here. Totally understand where you're coming from; we've heard this request from others and are interested in exploring a seamless solution for `alt` reliant power users like yourself.

Drop me an email if you'd be interested in user-testing a solution! billy[at]rowzero.io

I don't remember looking at Glide, although it looks really nice & full-featured. I'll have to play around with it sometime. I do remember trying out https://www.npmjs.com/package/@deephaven/grid.

One pivotal feature that is difficult to map onto 3P tools is our data table UI, which is a separate scrollable grid that floats on top of the main sheet. That, combined with the complexity of formula selection, inserting buttons into cells (header dropdowns, filter, sort), led us to decide that rolling our own solution for full control was the right choice.

Row Zero frontend dev here -- when architecting, we looked at some off-the-shelf canvas-based table tools, but ultimately rolled our engine for more control & flexibility with our growing feature set. We elected for canvas over DOM for perf among other reasons (eg DOM scrollbar virtualization is hard when MAX_ROW * ROW_HEIGHT exceeds the maximum allowed browser element height).

Great interview question. Tons of nuance to drawing borders on adjacent cells, how to handle varying thickness, etc. Once you start looking closely, you notice the pixel differences between how this gets handled by various spreadsheeting tools.

Thanks for the report! This one's already on my list actually (selection negation & unique selection deduping) -- look for a fix soon.