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Why You Should Never Vibe Code an Excel Spreadsheet
"Vibe coding," a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025 to describe a workflow where developers describe intent to an AI assistant and let the model generate the implementation, has earned its popularity. It has produced real, shipped products. It has lowered...
The Excel API: Why Your Spreadsheet Is Already a Backend Service
Here is a scenario most developers and IT managers have lived through at least once. A business analyst walks into a meeting and presents a pricing model built in Excel. It is sophisticated. It has been running for three years. It is accurate. The whole sales team...
Excel + AI Coding Agents vs. SpreadsheetWeb: What Actually Works in Production?
Excel + AI Coding Agents vs. SpreadsheetWeb: What Actually Works in Production? The idea of handing an Excel file to an AI coding agent and instantly getting a working application is compelling. With advances from OpenAI, GitHub, and Anthropic, this is no longer...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – April 2026
April’s release focuses on improving how information is presented and managed in your applications. With the introduction of the new Simple Label control and a series of enhancements to label handling in Elements and Automated App Creation, building clean, intuitive...
Introducing Elements: Build Web Apps from Excel Without Named Ranges
The old workflow had a catch If you have ever built an application with SpreadsheetWeb before, you know the drill. Before uploading your Excel file, you had to go back into the spreadsheet and manually define named ranges for every single cell or range you wanted to...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – March 2026
The March 2026 release introduces two major enhancements designed to make building and managing applications faster, more intuitive, and more scalable. This update focuses on improving both the way applications are created from Excel models and how users interact with...
Populating SpreadsheetWeb Applications with Publicly Available Data Using AI Prompts
Building data-driven applications in SpreadsheetWeb has traditionally required one of two things: either a developer writes a custom API integration to pull external data into cells, or a user manually copies and pastes values from external sources on a regular basis....
Turn Your Excel Models into AI Tools: Making a SpreadsheetWeb App AI-Consumable
Most teams start their AI journey by letting a chatbot answer questions. The real leap happens when AI can do work—run your pricing model, validate a configuration, evaluate eligibility, or generate an output that used to require a specialist. SpreadsheetWeb...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – February 2026
We’re excited to share the latest improvements in the February 2026 SpreadsheetWeb Hub release (26.2.0). Building on the new release versioning format introduced in January, this update brings a major runtime upgrade, stronger validation for Excel-driven apps, and a...