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Hjalmar Gislason

GRID - Turn your spreadsheets into smart, interactive web documents

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GRID is a productivity tool that transforms spreadsheets into interactive, visually dynamic web documents. GRID makes sharing and presenting spreadsheet data and models smart, quick, and exceptionally valuable.

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Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
Hey everyone, I’m Hjalmar, the founder and CEO of GRID. As a life-long data enthusiast, I’ve been fascinated with the nature, ubiquity and importance of spreadsheets. When we founded GRID in 2018 on a mission to empower end-users to do more with data and numbers, we recognized that any such journey would have to start with spreadsheets. GRID is a productivity tool that enables spreadsheet users to transform their data and models into interactive, visually dynamic web documents. GRID syncs seamlessly with existing spreadsheets and leverages spreadsheet users' existing skills. With GRID, you can add a narrative to your spreadsheets, decide which parts are shown to your audience and how they can interact with your models. With GRID you shouldn't have to attach a spreadsheet to an email ever again – or switch between different formats like Word, PowerPoint, and PDF when sharing your insights, turning spreadsheets into first-class citizens of the web. We look forward to hearing what you think, answering your questions and listening to your ideas!
Aleks Bochkov
@hjalli Looks great! Congrats! 🚀
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@bochkovaleks Thanks Aleks!
Kristjan Freyr Krist
Love this product. As a beta user, I had built a calculator that estimates how much employers spend on hiring. With GRID I could share a) key assumptions for user inputs in my model and b) show charts and graphs for results. It would have taken days (or weeks) to build something with similar functionality in a website, (where I would have started with a spreadsheet anyway).
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@kristjanfreyr Thanks for your continued support Kristjan, and now your requested embedding feature is fully supported and easily accessible from within the product. On a pro subscription you can even customize the look and feel of the embed :)
Rich Peterson
Looks great, I love the look of the interactive calculators. Would love to see templates in the future (from people willing to share things like mortgage calculators, insurance calculators etc)
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@generouswork Thanks Rich. Spot on. Creating a set of templates that people can duplicate, adapt and make their own is high on the priority list. Looking forward to continued feedback, comments and questions.
Rich Peterson
@hjalli Great to hear as I know quite a few clients who would love to use embedded reports and calculators on their websites. Beautiful product!
Ivanna Wendel
Cool product! Congrats on the launch!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@ivanna_wendel Thanks Ivanna!
Dávid Sipos
Greate work!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@david_sipos Thanks David!
Jói Sigurdsson
I'm very excited to see GRID launch. I've been a beta user for a while, and I can attest it's a very powerful tool for creating dynamic front-ends for your spreadsheets. I think there must be millions of huge, gnarly Excel sheets used to run businesses, and now finally they can be made accessible as web apps to non-expert users.
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@joisig Thanks Jói, appreciate your continued support!
Kerem Ali Kaynak
It's always been a love/hate relationship for me with spreadsheets - this is a total game changer for people who love data but lack the technical foundation to develop beautiful frontends. Congrats on the launch!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@keremakaynak Thanks for your kind words Kerem. Couldn't agree more. If you want to read up more on that love/hate relationship, check out these twin posts on our Medium: * https://medium.com/grid-spreadsh... * https://medium.com/grid-spreadsh...
Sveinn S
I used it for sharing and tweaking the business model with the team. Instantly useful. Congratulations on the launch! You set a high standard for us all.
Eiríkur Fannar Torfason
Maker
@sven_stone Thanks Sveinn. I think "instantly useful" pretty much sums up our aspirations for GRID.
Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson
Congratz! Been a beta user for some time, exciting times ahead!!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
Einar Þór Gústafsson
Great tool to share and visualize the data you are working on. I've used Grid to create cost calculators for SAAS tools and share growth estimations with investors.
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@einargustafsson Thanks Einar!
Jaisal Rathee
This is seriously cool! Considering using it for Submit Juice.
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@jaisalr Thanks Jaisal. Great to hear! Don't hesitate to reach out if anything.
Bogdan Ionita
Always a fan of data handling. It looks smooth and easy to use, website graphics are nice as well. Congrats!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@bogdan_ionita Thanks for the kind words Bogdan. Looking forward to your continued feedback!
Dirk Wilfling
Looks great! Is a user able to connect third party data into their grids via APIs?
Alexandra Bjargardóttir
Maker
@dwilfling Thanks Dirk! No - currently, GRID only supports data from spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel™ (xlsx), Google Sheets™ and flat CSV files). So, if you can get your data into a spreadsheet, GRID should work for you 🤗
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Congrats with the launch 🚀🎊
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@hjortureh Thanks Hjörtur!
Jonah Kaplan
Congrats on the launch Hjalmar and team!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@jonah_kaplan2 Thanks Jonah.
Benoit Chambon
Love when product can be easily customized! Thanks for sharing and congrats on the launch!!!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@benoit_chambon Thanks Benoit.
Hlynur Sigurðsson
Congrats @hjalli from us at KPMG - we're proud of being a small part of the journey!
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@hlynur_sigurdsson Thanks for the kind words and for your part in all of this Hlynur. I wouldn't call it small!
Shawn Cao
Congrats on the launch! Like the product’s vision!
Alexandra Bjargardóttir
Maker
@shawncao Thank you Shawn!
Kevin Laws
I tried this in beta and it's a great way to do a pitch deck - you can put your assumptions right into the financial model and let investors play with what they think reasonable assumptions are to see the potential outcomes. (It's a much better way to handle models since early stage investors are looking for your assumptions, not blindly believing your outputs!). Look forward to this type of "interactable data" make its way into more documents.
Alexandra Bjargardóttir
Maker
@klaws Thank you so much Kevin, we’re happy to hear that GRID has been of value to you 🤗
Hjalmar Gislason
Maker
@klaws Thanks for the kind words Kevin. Don’t hesitate with any questions, comments or ideas you may have!
Yehoshua Zlotogorski
This looks amazing, any specific use cases that you've seen most people use it for? I'm thinking investor reporting!
Alexandra Bjargardóttir
Maker
@yehoshua_zlotogorski Thanks Yehoshua! As you can probably imagine, we've seen GRID being used for all sorts of purposes and usecases that we weren't necessarily expecting when we started our beta. Our most common usecases can be split into three categories: reporting, model presentation and calculators. So you're absolutely right on investor reporting, we've seen that and a wide variety of reports being created by people who up until now were pulling together data from spreadsheets and combining that with narrative in either a text editor or presentation software. Model presentation is probably the usecase that we were anticipating the most, and where a lot of GRID's features really shine - here, we've seen teams pull together their business models, growth models, scenario analyses and more. We've gotten a lot of great feedback from our users who build models: whereas before they might have done an analysis in Excel that would show f.ex. 3 different scenarios and then they would talk through those in a presentation format, with GRID they're providing their colleagues with a deeper understanding of what goes into the analysis, and allowing them to play around with the assumptions and getting a much better "feel" for the data. Lastly, we're seeing *a lot* of calculators being built in GRID - again for a variety of reasons and across different types of businesses, e.g. price calculators, various types of "look up" tools and more. Often the end goal for these users is to build something useful for their audience or prospective clients and then embed that onto their own sites. This has been a super exciting usecase for us, because a lot of our calculator builders are people who don't necessarily have a strong technical background but have been using spreadsheets forever - and they are now building really powerful, interactive tools for their businesses without needing to hire external help or writing any code.
Yehoshua Zlotogorski
@alexandrabjarg Thanks for the color! Upvoted and signing up :)