Is the single-line formula bar in spreadsheets the most "broken" UI in modern productivity?
Hey PH Community!
I’m the technical co-founder of Formula Foundry.
My business partners and I are spending the last year obsessed with one question: why are we still building mission-critical business logic in a tiny, one-line box designed in the 90s?
We’ve all been there - nested IF statements so long they require a scrollbar, and #REF! errors that feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
Our team is building FF to treat spreadsheet formulas like professional code (think: IDEs, Variables, and Visual Logic Builders), but without the steep learning curve. We wanted to build something we ourselves actually wanted to use.
I’d love to hear from the builders here:
What is the "Formula from Hell" you’ve had to debug recently?
If you could add one "Developer Feature" to Excel or Sheets, what would it be? (Variables? Syntax highlighting? A giant 'Fix Everything' button?)
We’re polishing the final roadmap before our official drop. Can’t wait to hear your horror stories!
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