A simpler alternative to BI tools for Excel users

Hi HN,

Many small businesses run most of their operations in Excel.

Sales tracking, product lists, inventory, revenue reports — everything often ends up in spreadsheets.

The problem is that once the data grows, it becomes difficult to answer simple questions like:

What products actually make money?

Which categories are underperforming?

Where are we overstocked or understocked?

Traditional BI tools like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau Software are powerful, but for small teams they often require:

integrations

data modeling

dashboards to be built manually

I wanted something much simpler.

So I built a small tool where you can upload an Excel file and instantly get a business dashboard.

The system analyzes the spreadsheet and generates dashboards automatically showing things like:

sales performance

product performance

category trends

inventory signals (overstock / understock)

The idea is to remove the need to manually build dashboards or set up complex BI tools.

Instead of connecting databases or building reports, you just drop a spreadsheet and the dashboards are generated automatically.

The project is still early and I'm mostly trying to learn how people actually analyze spreadsheet data.

I'd love to hear how others here handle turning spreadsheet data into insights.