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Bricks — The AI Spreadsheet We’ve All Been Waiting For
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 🚀
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@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! 😊
@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!
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@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 :)
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@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
It's unbelievable that such a good tool is free.😊 Are there any plans to integrate with other tools or platforms in the future?
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@victoria_wu Thank you! And yes we have a ton of ideas on the roadmap :) Would love to hear what you had in mind
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'.
@cranqnow Thank you for the kind words! 😊 Totally agree—the struggle with formulas is real, and we’ve always aimed to make it easier.
@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! 😄
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?
@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.🤞😊
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@ash_grover Thank you! Appreciate the kind words. We're here to build for ours users for the long term :) This is the product we've always wanted to use
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.
@dilkaran_singh Thank you so much for the support and thoughtful feedback! :) Expanding data visualization tools is definitely on our roadmap.
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@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 🙌
@maxcompe Haha! We're lucky. Kevin believed in the idea early and has been an early adopter!
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@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...
@mirel_dan Thank you so much for your support and amazing feedback—truly appreciate it! :)
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 :)
@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.
@ribhuchawla Thanks for the support! :) I’d love to hear how you used it and would really appreciate any feedback once you’ve tried it out.
@qq99 Thanks a lot, Anthony! Means so much coming from someone who’s been so close to this journey! :)
This is amazing ! congratulations. This really makes spreadsheets a much smoother ride.
been watching the team build this out it is an absolutely gangster product and shows how id
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@codyschneider Thanks Cody!! You've been incredibly helpful and appreciate the love 🙏
Bricks sounds like the dream tool for anyone who spends too much time wrestling with spreadsheets! An AI-powered spreadsheet that eliminates the hassle of formulas and data cleanup is a game-changer for productivity. The fact that it's free makes it even better—can't wait to try it out!