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Kevin William David

Bricks - The AI Spreadsheet We’ve All Been Waiting For

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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.

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Spencer Lanoue
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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 🚀
Helen Xiong
@kevin @slanoue 🎉 Big congrats on the launch, Bricks team! I’m especially impressed by how intuitive the interface seems🚀 Quick question: How does The Bricks handle queries that involve multiple tables? Is there a way to simplify those joins or relationships for folks who might not be SQL pros? Super curious! 😊
Tony Tong
@kevin @slanoue Congrats, Spencer and team! 🎉 Bricks looks fantastic, and those templates are a standout! Spreadsheets are such a competitive space—beyond simplifying workflows, how do you see Bricks carving out its niche long-term, especially for users already embedded in Excel or Google Sheets ecosystems? Wishing you an stellar launch!
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@kevin @helen9 Thank you for your support and the kind words! Great question - the short answer is that Bricks handles queries that involve multiple tables well. All you have to do is reference both tables in your prompt and ask AI to join them for you For example: if you had Table_01 with customer names and Table_02 with email addresses, and you wanted to join them. You could write a prompt like: `Please join Table_01 and Table_02 into a new table` You wouldn't need to write any SQL to accomplish this. Bricks will build the new table for you directly in the spreadsheet Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any follow up questions :)
Helen Xiong
@kevin @slanoue Thanks for the clarification, Spencer! really appreciate the detailed example, that’s super helpful! 😊 I’m curious, who do you see as the primary target audience for Bricks? Is it aimed more at Excel data analysts looking to streamline workflows, or at folks who might not know SQL or Excel formulas very well but need to extract insights from their data? Also, while using natural language to join tables is a great step forward, I wonder if there’s potential to simplify it even further for users who might not know how to structure their questions effectively. For example, could Bricks offer predefined templates or suggestions to guide users in framing their queries? Excited to see how this evolves! 👏
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@kevin @tonyabracadabra Really appreciate the kind words! A lot of people still struggle with spreadsheets. Bricks will hopefully make spreadsheets much more accessible to more people. And will also help automate a lot of the busy work that the more advanced spreadsheet users *know how to do* but is really not a good use of their time
Tushar Jain
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?
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@tushj Thank you for your support! We’re happy to say we’re ahead of the curve, not just with AI but with the overall product. We’re trying to ensure that our focus on continuous innovation keeps us ahead, even with giants like Microsoft and Google in the space.🤞😊
Tushar Jain
@manpreetsgarha Good luck with Bricks. It's definitely very useful.
Ashit Vora
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 :)
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@ashitvora Thanks for the question and for playing devil’s advocate! :) We started our journey as spreadsheet software because we felt there hadn’t been much innovation in Google Sheets or Excel as overall products. Our focus was on making the spreadsheet UX less intimidating and merging the concepts of spreadsheets and presentations. This less-scary approach eventually aligned with the AI boom, allowing us to integrate AI in a way that feels more seamless and intuitive.
Sam @CRANQ
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'.
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@cranqnow Thank you for the kind words! 😊 Totally agree—the struggle with formulas is real, and we’ve always aimed to make it easier.
Sam @CRANQ
@manpreetsgarha Do you personally use the platform a lot?
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@cranqnow Definitely—a lot! 😊 Personally, I use it to update my expense tracker every month and as my idea pad (board in Bricks). Professionally, for data transformation and analysis—last thing I did was preprocess data to send a bulk email. It powers all our internal product management workflows, planning, and documentation—no GSuite/Office products were harmed! 😄
Aarushi Bhatnagar
This is amazing ! congratulations. This really makes spreadsheets a much smoother ride.
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@aarushi_bhatnagar Thank you so much! :) Really glad you think so.
Cody Schneider
been watching the team build this out it is an absolutely gangster product and shows how id
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@codyschneider Thank you for the kind words and support! :)
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@codyschneider Thanks Cody!! You've been incredibly helpful and appreciate the love 🙏
Sriharsha Reddy Devaram
Congratulations team, all the very best
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@theengineersri Thank you for your kind wishes and support! :)
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@theengineersri thank you for the support! 🙏
Max Comperatore
damn you guys hired Kevin for the video? that's cool
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@maxcompe Haha! We're lucky. Kevin believed in the idea early and has been an early adopter!
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@maxcompe Kevin's been a big supporter from the early days! He's made a couple great video tutorials about how to use Bricks: https://youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Dilkaran Singh
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.
Manpreet Singh Garha
Maker
@dilkaran_singh Thank you so much for the support and thoughtful feedback! :) Expanding data visualization tools is definitely on our roadmap.
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@dilkaran_singh Love this idea! We support Sankey Diagrams today. If you give it a try I'd love to hear what your use case was and how well it worked for you 🙌
Ash Read
I love how easy Bricks makes it to get started with templates.
Spencer Lanoue
Maker
@ashread_ Thanks for the support :) Appreciate it
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