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.
It's insane how many human hours each day are spent squinting at a tiny formula bar trying to deconstruct the logic. Hundreds of millions? Billions?
This is a great fix - one of those "oh yeah how did this not exist before?" kind of moments. I hope every spreadsheet power user gives it a look.
@cushmachine , you hit the nail on the head! I honestly think "billions" might even be an underestimate when you consider how much of the global economy runs on these formulas.
I asked myself that same "how does this not exist yet?" question every single day while building this. It turns out, building a custom engine that can parse the quirks of both Excel and Google Sheets into a clean, visual IDE is a massive technical headache. Most tools just try to put a "band-aid" on the formula bar, but we realized we had to build a whole new environment from the ground up to actually fix the "squinting" problem.
Thanks for the support - it makes all those late nights debugging the parser feel worth it! Do you have a specific "formula from hell" that you're excited to throw into the builder first?