I work at https://www.deepnote.com/, we are trying to tackle some of the pains mentioned in the article (setup, collaboration, IDE features like auto-complete or linting).
We are still early access, but if you are interested in an invite just let me know. My email is filip at deepnote dot com.
Deepnote seems quite interesting, but as a cheapskate grad student, I'm compelled to ask.
If this information isn't private, what sort of business model do you use? I take it you'll have a SaaS subscription model? I see it's free to use now, but how does your company plan to make money (especially taking into account the cost of the cloud hosting Deepnote requires)?
Our goal right now is to build the most amazing data science notebook. We need a lot of feedback to get there, that's why we are keeping it free. But since the servers also cost us something, we haven't opened up Deepnote to the public just yet.
Once in GA, we know we can support students on a free tier almost indefinitely (it doesn't really cost that much) while offering more advanced features on a subscription model for teams and enterprises.
We are still early access, but if you are interested in an invite just let me know. My email is filip at deepnote dot com.