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Comment by petepete | Hacker News Reader

Finally the Resolver One dream is coming true, just 15 or 16 years late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6EV2jiKRfc

Interestingly enough, when Resolver One didn't work out in the marketplace, we pivoted to PythonAnywhere. That took off nicely, and was acquired by Anaconda last year. And now Anaconda is realising those old dreams :-)

BTW for clarity: the team working on this inside Anaconda is entirely separate from the PythonAnywhere team. It would have made a perfect Hollywood-ready story if it had been the same people...

Wow, thank you for replying. I'm so glad it worked out in the end.

I remember being blown away by the ResolverOne demonstration video, and if I recall correctly, some others you posted showing some of the other features and functionality.

The fact VisiData (my current 'spreadsheet' of choice) has acquired a sizeable following in that niche, and now Excel is following suit suggests you might have just been a little too far ahead of the curve.

We were discussing about Resolver One 6 months ago at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34819682

One mystery we did not resolve (pun intended) was why it did not find its audience. Was it too early? Was data science not established enough as a field? Was it because it was not Excel (i.e. the dominant tool)?

I think it was a combination of those, plus terrible market timing -- we released it, thinking we could sell to finance types, in 2008. In our sales pipeline spreadsheet, the "notes" column started saying things like "customer has gone bankrupt".

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