A Notion-like platform for building interactive models
Hey HN. I wanted to share an update to our previous thread, “Notion with problem solving capabilities”. The Decipad public beta is now live. You can try it for free here. https://www.decipad.com/ We started building Decipad to make numbers more expressive and playful. It’s a notebook environment where you can combine text, numbers, data and calculations into a story. Our goal is to help people communicate with numbers more effectively and collaborate across diverse backgrounds. It’s feels a bit like Notion, but it’s for building interactive models and reports. A few things…
A Notion-like platform for building interactive models launched on July 31, 2023 with 88 votes, #897 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
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Decipad is a notebook platform for creating interactive models and reports by combining text, numbers, data, and calculations into narratives. Designed for anyone who needs to communicate with numbers more effectively, it offers a friendly modeling experience with quasi-natural language for expressing variables and calculations, along with tables, charts, and pivot tables. The platform includes a built-in unit system and is aimed at facilitating collaboration across diverse backgrounds through more expressive and playful number storytelling.
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Hey HN. I wanted to share an update to our previous thread, “Notion with problem solving capabilities”. The Decipad public beta is now live. You can try it for free here. https://www.decipad.com/ We started building Decipad to make numbers more expressive and playful. It’s a notebook environment where…
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