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I am working on https://www.ironcalc.com, a spreadsheet engine.

I have been working on it for the last two years as a side project, but starting March will be my full time job! Kind of excited and scared at the same time

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This looks great! r/selfhosted will love this.

Could you please provide a Docker image?

Oh right, yes, that's long due. I will have one for ~Sunday and post it there.

Many thanks!

nice project very interesting

How do you switch from open source (1) to full time paid job (2) ? I'm curious cause I'm still stuck in (1)

Thank for your feedback

Thanks! With respect tothe transtion I think everyones case is different. On my case, I am not an entrepeneur, I didn't aspire to create a company and it wasn't my intentions to make money out of IronCalc. I thought it was a missing piece in our current tech stack and turn out that many other people were interested. Firs I got a grant from the nlNet[1]. That wasn't enough for me to live of but paved the way to what was coming. Many different companies took an interest and I started havin emails from different folks about how to integrate IronCalc. Some of them were happy to spend some money on it, but I couldn't take it because of my day job. Goverments got interested (!) [2]. I realized there might be ways for me to have a modest living and push the vission I have for IronCalc for another two years. There are many things I could say on the topic, if you like to chat feel free to send me an email. I'm always happy to help

[1]: https://nlnet.nl/project/IronCalc/ [2]: https://github.com/suitenumerique/calc

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