Andrew Apell

I am the maker of SlideCut. We all know the struggle: You have spent hours writing a perfect report, proposal or article in Google Docs. The content is done. But now comes the painful part—manually copy-pasting everything into Google Slides, formatting headers and dragging text boxes around for another two hours. I built SlideCut to combat that "formatting fatigue." SlideCut analyses your...

Congratulations on the launch. I believe the fact that it is fully open source will bring you much success amongst solo founders like me.

I am thrilled to share Flookup API, our fifth Product Hunt launch! After four launches that taught me resilience (the first two excelled, the last two were challenging), this milestone represents eight years of refining fuzzy logic into a robust solution. I developed this to liberate Flookup from the constraints of Google Sheets and Apps Script, enabling it to operate on a powerful, scalable...

Five years ago, someone introduced me to the idea of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for data cleaning. At the time, I was confident that AI had little advantage over traditional algorithms. For the first three years, I resisted adding any AI to Flookup. Then, I wrote a small post on my website, announcing that I would eventually integrate it, but another two years passed before I finally...

I have finally arrived at a great milestone in as a solopreneur! Since launching Flookup on this platform over 5 years ago, I have always been plagued by the simple fact that, because it is a Google Sheets add-on, it was constrained by Google's timeout policy. This meant that cleaning larger datasets was not very convenient, as the add-on would timeout in a few seconds. Later on, I added a new...

Listing on the Google Workspace Marketplace made users find Flookup before I had really started looking for them.

It has been 3 years since we launched Flookup Product Hunt. In those 3 years, Flookup has undergone multiple changes (500+), each change engineered to make it the best no-frills data cleaning add-on on the web. WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THE ORIGINAL LAUNCH? 1. Long Run Mode which allows the functions to run for 6 minutes. This is up from the original 30 second runtime. 2. Upgraded algorithm that...

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Impressive product guys! You just keep getting better and better!

I'll take it off your hands if you don't like it hehehe Anyway, I really enjoyed your story; great read.snd full of useful points. Now I'm curious about your new product and whether the lessons you've learnt from Sip will have a positive and meaningful impact on it or not...

It can be used to perform vertical lookups on any column and horizontal lookups on any row, based on percentage or sound similarity. It can also be used to highlight or delete duplicate values by sound or percentage similarity. Pros: Flookup makes working with unsorted, uncleaned or even clean data much easier Cons: It doesn't work offline