Built a Lightweight Excel Monitoring Tool — Would Love Feedback
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I’m excited to share something I’ve been building: ThresholdIQ — a lightweight KPI simulator and anomaly detector for Excel/CSV data. Most teams still rely on spreadsheets for their most important metrics. But spreadsheets don’t warn you when something looks off. You only notice issues after they’ve caused damage. I wanted a simple way to upload a file and instantly see:...
Static thresholds are dead. Let’s talk about window‑based alerting
Most monitoring tools still rely on static thresholds — “Alert me if Sales > 10,000” or “Trigger Critical if Inventory < 500.” But real systems don’t behave in straight lines. Traffic spikes, seasonality shifts, and user behaviour changes every hour. That’s why we built window‑based alerting inside ThresholdIQ. Instead of looking at a single row of data, we evaluate patterns over time using...
How do you get alerts from Excel without using a BI tool?
If your KPIs live in Excel or Google Sheets, how do you get automatic alerts? Right now most options are: Manual checking Complex BI setup Writing scripts Zapier automations I’m exploring a simpler way to: Upload a spreadsheet Set 3-tier thresholds (Warning / Critical / Emergency) Get alerts when numbers cross limits Before I launch — what would you need to see for this to be useful?