Skip to content
Tag

Formula Foundry

17 posts

A split screen showing a frustrated user squinting at a complex, broken spreadsheet formula on one side, and a relaxed professional using a sleek sidebar interface on the other.
3 min read

Your Syntax Ego is Costing You: Why Real Pros Use a Visual Formula Builder

Stop wearing your ability to type nested IF statements like a badge of honor. In 2025, refusing to use a visual formula builder does not make you an expert; it makes you a liability.

A stressed office worker staring at a tangled knot of parentheses floating in the air, contrasting with a calm user dragging and dropping blocks on a screen.
5 min read

Confessions of a Recovering Syntax Addict: Why I Finally Used a Google Sheets Formula Generator

Stop wearing your spreadsheet suffering like a badge of honor. It is time to embrace a Google Sheets formula generator and leave the parentheses hunting in the past where it belongs.

Recapping Our Product Hunt Launch

We launched Formula Foundry on Product Hunt on February 6, 2025, and the response blew us away. Ending the day in the top 30 products felt incredible, especially since we saw some of the highest engagement of any launch that day. By comments alone, we would have ranked around 4th, with thoughtful discussions, questions, and […]

4 min read

Mastering XLOOKUP in Google Sheets: Beyond VLOOKUP with Formula Foundry’s Visual Builder

XLOOKUP fixes many frustrations from VLOOKUP. It searches any column, returns values from left or right, handles missing matches cleanly, and defaults to exact matches. You avoid column index counting errors and direction limits. Formula Foundry makes this even easier with a visual builder in the sidebar. Fill fields, watch the formula build live, and […]

3 min read

How to Use VLOOKUP in Google Sheets: A Straightforward Guide with Formula Foundry

VLOOKUP is handy for grabbing data from a table based on a key – like finding a price from a product ID. But it often trips people up with errors like #N/A or wrong returns, leading to endless searches for fixes. Formula Foundry simplifies this by turning it into a visual process in the sidebar. […]