InstaCalc might be a bit more popular than NumPad. We know about 5 links to it since March 2021 and only 4 links to NumPad. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Shout out to https://instacalc.com/ . It's like a simple spreadsheet or calculator but with awesome support for dimensional analysis -- you can attach any units you want to a quantity and it will track it throughout the calculations. For example, here's a quick scratchpatch I used for calculating memory bandwidth / CPU transfer rates: https://instacalc.com/56842. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Neat! I used to use https://instacalc.com/ for simple calculations, you can share your calculations, but it doesn't have the notepad feature like this one. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
In the wide niche on the complexity scale between your basic Windows* calculator and MATLAB sits instacalc.com. Source: over 2 years ago
For quick ad-hoc calculations I like https://instacalc.com/ because:. Source: almost 3 years ago
Surprised no one has mentioned https://instacalc.com yet. Not a native Mac app but genius. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
This is awesome! I currently use numpad[0] for this, but would much prefer a local app. I would love to switch but the only thing holding me back is lack of Vim support. Are there any plans to add Vim keymap in the future? 0: https://numpad.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
This looks fantastic. I will definitely give it a spin. I've been tracking what I call "computational scratchpad" apps for a while now but haven't found one that fits my environment/workflow yet. Maybe Heynote will. Here are some others that I've looked at: * https://soulver.app Granddad of them all, Mac-only, proprietary, expensive * https://numi.app Mac-only, proprietary, semi-expensive. Has a Github and claims... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
My side project NumPad https://numpad.io got me my current job at Decipad https://www.decipad.com/ (the similar naming scheme is a coincidence!). I came across Decipad while looking for a job, and messaged the founder, highlighting my work on NumPad. They were impressed enough that the hiring process ended up being just a few interviews, I've been there for almost a year now, and it's been pretty good! If there's... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Love all of these, here's another one from earlier this year: https://numpad.io/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32493946. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
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