# Deepnote 12 Hacker News commenters recommended Deepnote and 16 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended as a polished, Apache 2 licensed data notebook with a hosted option. Critics call its claim to succeed Jupyter overblown. ## Why people recommend it - Useful product that deserves attention (3 comments): "They've built something genuinely useful and interesting but it's going go get a lot less attention than it deserves" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814982)) "What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815940)) "I really liked Deepnote the product when I last used it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815499)) - Better Jupyter-style notebook interface (2 comments): "We use the hosted version at my previous company to replace self-hosted Jupyter notebooks, and it's pretty great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986873)) "has had the single best jupyter interface for years now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814620)) - Open source under Apache 2 (2 comments): "We worked hard to execute on our vision of a data notebook and I'm glad we finally got a chance to open source it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815166)) "it's Apache 2 licensed, so actually open source and not just pretending for the cred" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814639)) - Reactive, readable format with clean diffs (3 comments): "There was interesting stuff here: the human readable format, auto publication." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814394)) "Its reactivity is a very cool feature once used to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816662)) "there isn't random JSON blobs coming in PR diffs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817132)) ## What people warn about - Overclaims being Jupyter's successor (6 comments): "Self-declaring themselves to be the successor to a project that's still alive and that they seemingly have absolutely no legitimate claim to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815322)) "This whole post stinks of "we're losing to Jupyter so let's throw up a ridiculous Hail Mary"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815647)) "Bold and ridiculous to claim your random product is "the successor" of a well-known project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815144)) - Launch post seems sloppy or LLM-written (5 comments): "Seeing such pivotal announcement be poorly vetted slop doesn't really inspire confidence in the quality of their product." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816282)) "The note sounds as written by some manager/marketing guy that has 20 years to touch a line of code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815249)) "Merely retroactively changing the post doesn't inspire confidence" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820703)) - Fears open-sourcing precedes shutdown (2 comments): "opensourcing it basically in today's world is a precursor to we're sunsetting it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816281)) "it's very likely they will close the source to continue operating" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815604)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Jupyter Notebook](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jupyter.md): 67 recommend - [marimo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/marimo.md): 53 recommend - [Pluto.jl](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pluto-jl.md): 21 recommend - [Google Colab](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-colab.md): 18 recommend - [JupyterLite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jupyterlite.md): 5 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://deepnote.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Deepnote", https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepnote/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).