Ever feel like you spend more time managing spreadsheets than actually using them to get things done? Bricks is an AI spreadsheet that does the work for you. No more formulas. No more hours of data cleanup — just answers. And best of all, it's free to use.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 Spencer here
I’m excited to introduce you to Bricks—an AI spreadsheet that does all your spreadsheet tasks for you using natural language prompts. Huge shoutout to @kevin for hunting us!
Spreadsheets are incredible tools but a lot of people struggle with learning how to use them effectively. And even advanced users get caught in repeatedly googling how to write some formulae, fighting with pivot tables, vlookup, chart creator and conditional formatting. We have a long way to go but we're just getting started.
We've spent the last few years rebuilding a modern architecture of a spreadsheet that is fast and easy to use with AI being at the center of the experience. We have thousands of users enjoying the product and giving us feedback. And your data is secure as we do not use it for any training purposes.
Apart from making spreadsheets easier for everyone to use, these are some of the features we wanted to improve upon:1. Writing Formulas: You don’t need to write formulas anymore. You just type what you want to do and AI does it for you. Furthermore, some things are just hard to do with formulae in excel and google sheets. AI makes those hard tasks easy!
2. Tables: We introduced a powerful new concept of tables that way you don't have to work with individual cells or cell ranges. You can instead ask AI to work with entire table or columns inside the table using their names. Moreover, it adds data types so that you get access to date picker, checkbox, easy to manage tags and dropdowns.
3. Creating Charts & Graphs: Charts look ugly in traditional spreadsheets. You can create beautiful looking charts both by just asking AI to create charts and dashboards or using our easy to use drag and drop chart creator.
4. Conditional Formatting, Pivot Tables, Vlookups: Instead of learning the complex interfaces, you can just say “Highlight the cells that have this value”, instead of pivot tables you can say “Group my table with this column” or “Join these 2 tables based on this column” instead of vlookups.
5. Manually Adding Charts to our Slides: We got tired of building charts in spreadsheets and then copy pasting into ppt/slides. So we built a visual board that's connected to your spreadsheet. You can add charts, graphs, dashboards, reports, etc - and in one click you can start presenting. The charts are all connected to your live spreadsheet data, so when your data changes, the charts in your presentation automatically change as well.
We’re excited to share Bricks with the PH community because we think that everyone deserves to be able to use a spreadsheet easily. And we’d love to hear your feedback! What do you think we could improve to make it even more useful? Let us know in the comments 🚀
This tool is not only highly intuitive but also exceptionally useful, making it an invaluable resource for significantly boosting productivity. I highly recommend giving it a try to experience its benefits firsthand! 🚀
Congrats on the launch! Great use of AI for a product type that millions rely on. It feels like this was designed with acquisition potential in mind? I can definitely see some company acquiring this tool in the future.
I like the simplicity of the tool; it is very easy to use. AI comes in handy when editing data or for technical questions. I would like to see the expansion of data visualization tools to visualize complex data types, such as box plots, Sankey plots, heatmaps, etc.
been watching the team build this out it is an absolutely gangster product and shows how id
This is amazing ! congratulations. This really makes spreadsheets a much smoother ride.
This sounds like a real time-saver! Excited to see how it makes spreadsheets effortless.
That's insanely useful - Where are all the users who are trading stock options from home?!
Would ideal for people like that looking to track portfolios etc.
Formula's are always something which I've somewhat struggled with so I appreciate the fact that this will have a mass-appeal to the 'SpreadSheet User Market'.
Congrats on the launch, @slanoue, @anshuljhawar , @manpreetsgarha , @mike_kushnikov.
Acting as devil's advocate - how did you validate that people need an AI-powered spreadsheet? And do you think platforms like Google Sheets could catch up with similar features anytime soon?
Would love to hear your thoughts :)
Loved your concept. But dont you think Google and MS will release this pretty soon and you will be in danger? Or am I just fear mongering?
It's unbelievable that such a good tool is free.😊 Are there any plans to integrate with other tools or platforms in the future?
