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Lots! We long since incorporated all of the suggestions from that post, including building a cross-language graphing API for Python, Julia, MATLAB, R, et al. We've also had time since then to raise a seed round, smooth out the UX and aesthetic, build more features like ability to comment on graphs, and build the team past the original 2.5 engineers from the time of that post (https://plot.ly/about). There are also many, many more graph types: box plots, histograms, error bars, area plots, and multiple axes and subplots coming very soon. Thanks for following and asking! Most of the HN readership likely graphs data regularly, so its been especially rewarding and fascinating to solicit feedback from y'all.

Thanks for the feedback! We're most excited about collaborative data analysis. Imagine being able to simultaneously view/edit a graph and script for a computational problem being solved in a team... Programmers can do this in git, but a data scientist might want a tool that is more visual and focused around graphs. I worked at a semiconductor R&D company for a while and we often shared scripts and graphs by email... it felt like the 90s (:

Lots of private companies with R&D don't like their data leaving the building, but want a collaborative tool that's more technical than G docs. We're exploring this space, hopefully while providing a kick-ass, free or very cheap graphing tool for the public at large.