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Powerful Collaboration on Top of Google Sheets
Chris Messina
Layer ā€” The connective tissue for spreadsheets
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Layer is a collaboration platform that works on top of your existing Excel files and Google Sheets. Share parts of your spreadsheet, collect and consolidate data, and review changes to make collaboration seamless while keeping full control over your data.
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Kazimieras Melaika
Great job! Will be a valuable addition to my Google Sheets! Looks gooooood! ; ) Btw, weā€™re launching in late May. Check out our upcoming PH page: www.producthunt.com/upcoming/eff... Our project is called: Effecto. Itā€™s an app for detailed habit, health, symptoms, and meds tracking. Pretty much for everything that is related to your physical or mental health and every daily factor that can affect you.
Hady ElHady
Thanks @kmelaika. Looking forward to having you on board! And best of luck with your upcoming launch. Hope you knock it out of the park! šŸš€
Maya Ben Zid
@mo_ten There are several things I want to point out about your launch. From the product standpoint, it's easy to tell you thought about the shortcoming of spreadsheet tools and created a product with unique features. As for the launch itself, your video is amazing - the amount of research you've done is staggering and the editing quality is superior. Amazing work.
Moritz ten Eikelder
Thank you for the kind words, @maya_ovice. All credit for the video needs to go to @hadyelhady šŸ‘
Matthew Ritchie
Launching soon!
Love all the facts (especially the one about the 7B cells, even though it kind of broke my brain šŸ¤Æ ). Seems like you folks have created a unique way to revolutionize an archaic tool that's used every day all over the worldā€”congrats on the big launch and bold idea!
Ernests Karlsons
@matthew_ritchie thank you! Yeah, itā€™s a lot of cells :) Happy to show you around the product! For more insight, watch our product video: https://golayer.io/what-is-layer/
Taylor Davidson
Have enjoyed using Layer, really helps solve the problems in collecting data and inputs from a wide variety of people and keeping some control and transparency into changes and updates. Congrats on the Product Hunt launch šŸ™‚
Hady ElHady
Thank you so much, @tdavidson. We truly appreciate the early and continued support from you and Foresight! šŸ“ˆ
Moritz ten Eikelder
Thank you, @tdavidson šŸ™
Moritz ten Eikelder
Hey Product Hunt šŸ‘‹ Thanks, @chrismessina, for hunting us. Iā€™m Mo, CFO, and Co-Founder at Layer. Back when I was CFO at Helpling, I was not too fond of the forecasting processā€”distributing Excel templates among 20+ team members, collecting their inputs, and consolidating it all. It was very clunky, error-prone, and time-consuming, Thatā€™s when I met Consti, CEO and Co-Founder at Layer, and we came up with an idea. We wanted to free anyone who deals with spreadsheets frequently, literally hundreds of millions of people, from menial tasks or tedious processes like the ones I had to manage. šŸ¤” The solution? A collaboration platform for spreadsheets that works on top of existing files addressing the shortcomings of Excel and Google Sheets without forcing the user into a new tool. Limitless applicability and use cases worldwide leveraging the most well-known interface for quantitative work. šŸ“Š How does Layer do that? Think of Layer as the GitHub for spreadsheets. You can: šŸ—‚ Manage Access: Share parts of your spreadsheet via Excel, Google Sheets, or Layer Sheets, our own web-based spreadsheet editor, and assign individual reading and editing permissions. šŸ”Ž Review & Track: Spot changes easily and choose to accept or reject them, and keep previous file versions and restore them if needed. šŸ¤ Collaborate: Define, assign, and monitor recurring tasks, and keep discussions, actionable feedback, or context all in one place. šŸ How to get started? - Sign up for free (Sign up today for a free 1-month Pro Plan worth ā‚¬299 šŸš€) - Schedule your personal onboarding tour if needed so we can help you set up your custom flows. For more insights on why we started Layer in the first place and our learnings from the past three years, check out: https://blog.golayer.io/product/... Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts! Mo
Moritz ten Eikelder
Thank you, @michael_sieb šŸ™
Michelle Dear
WOW this is very exciting. I spent years in private equity building excel models and hours attempting to collaborate with my team. This is a fantastic concept that I think will resonate with a lot of businesses. Congrats to the team!!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@michelledearxox Thanks a lot Michelle! Good to hear that we struck a cord with you.
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
Super excited for the launch. We've been waiting for this day for a long time and are extremely glad and humbled to showcase our product to the world now. All feedback is welcome.
Ernests Karlsons
I'm so happy and excited about the whole team Layer for what's to come. This has been a journey, and it's only a beginning!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@ernestskarlsons Onwards and upwards.
Habib Rahal
Very proud and excited about showcasing the product to the world! Both the goal to reinvent teamwork for spreadsheets, and the process to get there are very rewarding. Looking forward for to all the feedback!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@habibrahal Thanks to your designing skills we are where we are.
Tarun Karthikeyan
I could've definitely used this when I was in KPMG and EY! So. many. versions. on. email. and. LAN. folders.
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@tarun_karthikeyan Be sure to recommend Layer to your ex-colleagues then ;) Thanks for your support.
Erick Bressani
Iā€™ve been working for Layer for more than 1 year and Iā€™m very excited and proud to be part of this moment!
Moritz ten Eikelder
@erick_bressani we are super happy to have you on board. Keep rocking!
Florian MĆ¼ller
Wow, this sounds really awesome for work and collaboration! Looking forward to try it out. All the best and congrats!!!!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@florian_mueller1 Thanks for the flowers Florian ;) Looking forward to your feedback.
Lalit Pagaria
UPVOTED!! It seems layer evolved a lot since it's initial days. I wish you success. Fun fact that 3 years back I applied to Layer and did assignment. But in the end I was rejected without much feedback (Built fully functional API service, with RBAC). As a founder myself, understand such things can happen with startups. Hopefully your might have improved the process since. Repo: https://github.com/lalitpagaria/...
Jona Hoffmann
Iā€™ve been part of the Layer journey for nearly a year now ā€“ joining as a Foundersā€™ Associate intern and making it all the way to the Product team. It was so exciting to see how the product evolved over the last month and to finally share it with you. I hope youā€™ll enjoy it and Layer will help you take your spreadsheet workflows to the next level šŸš€
Moritz ten Eikelder
@hoffinho we are lucky to have you as part of the team
Pedro MarzagĆ£o
Can't say how proud we are of everyone that made it possible! A big thank you to every client that took this journey with us so far!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@pedro_marzagao Totally agree with you and proud to have you with us.
Nitesh Kumar
I started designing at Layer 6 months ago. It's a fantastic feeling to see the results of all the hardwork and love the team has been putting into the product. So proud of what we've created and beyond excited for the future! šŸš€
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@niteshk5 Proud to have you as part of the team.
Amol
It's been a year and a half since I joined Layer. I still vividly remember how excited I was about building Layer together. We kept building feature by feature just to realise how much Layer has evolved since then. Today I'm very happy and proud of that journey.
Moritz ten Eikelder
We are grateful to have you on board, @amolrv
Dave John
Happy for a big step for team Layer. Ask me anything you want to know from product, challenges to team&vision!
Constantin SchĆ¼nemann
@dave_john A big step forward indeed.
Loise PeƱaranda
Congrats on the launch! They say, Good product stays, but Great product spreads. All the best to all the awesome people behind this project! šŸ„‚
Hady ElHady
Thanks @loise_corpuz_penaranda for your kind words. We truly appreciate you!
Harvind Ganase
Very exciting product, Layer team. This looks like a blessing for those of us who stare at spreadsheets all day. Congrats on the launch! šŸš€