1/ 💥 Today’s a big day at Equals — we’re launching dashboards. 💥
Forget yet another BI tool. Build fully automated dashboards with the flexibility and familiarity of a spreadsheet.
Support our launch on Product Hunt, and learn more below 👇
Today we launch
@figma
's original Self Serve forecasting model in Equals 🚀
@sean__whit
shared how his team used this report to navigate hypergrowth in the early days. Now, you can use the same analysis. ⚡ Links in thread below ⚡
Check it out 👇
1/ New in Equals.
Turn a CSV into a database.
Now you can:
→ Upload a CSV and query it from any workbook. Use SQL or our visual query builder
→ Update a CSV in one place, have it flow through to every analysis
→ Share a CSV datasource with anyone
Two weeks ago, we released a template for
@Figma
's original forecasting model, and it blew up. Now, we're hosting an AMA with
@sean__whit
, employee
#40
at Figma, who built and ran the model in the early days.
👇 Register now and submit your questions:
Today we're excited to share the model that
@Pinterest
used to forecast MAUs in run up to IPO.
Built by
@eugenejylee
, their former Head of Biz Ops.
This is installment two of our Operators Dilemma series where we share real models from great tech companies.
Links below 👇
Today we’re delighted to announce that we've raised a $16M series A led by
@a16z
and
@kshenster
!
Plus:
@heyequals
is now FREE for founders, finance teams, and early operators to use.
And we're hiring across the board.
🚀 Aaannnd….we’re live on
@ProductHunt
!
Introducing Dashboards – our BIGGEST release EVER.
Now, Equals is the only way to turn a spreadsheet into a dynamic dashboard – instantly.
It’s business intelligence, but dead easy.
See for yourself 👇
Today it gets even easier for startups to understand their business with Equals. Now you can easily connect and import live data from
@stripe
.
Work natively with customer, charges, subscription, and invoice data.
Check out this 2 min demo ⚡
Today we launch one of our biggest new features!
Connect Equals to anything using JavaScript and Python. Write custom scripts to import data from internal APIs, Google Analytics, Intercom, etc.
We’re live on
@ProductHunt
and we’d love your support!
Today it gets faster to build any analysis in Equals. We’re launching Pivot Tables ✨
Pivot Tables are the easiest way to do analysis without formulas. Seamlessly go from database to pivot to spreadsheet. There’s no simpler way to work with data.
New in Equals: Command+K with GPT-4 built in!
Type ⌘+K to access any spreadsheet feature, instantly, directly from the keyboard.
Smartfill with GPT-4 generates your formulas.
Explain helps you debug.
Learn more, watch it in action here 👇
New Function Alert: The JSONLOOKUP 🔎
Parse values out of a JSON string with a single formula. Only on Equals.
=JSONLOOKUP(A2, "name")
And, yes — it’s really that simple.
1/ Today, we're introducing Stripe 2.0 — our
@stripe
integration, but better than ever.
With its release, downloading your Stripe data into an Equals workbook is *faster* than pulling the raw data directly from Stripe (or using the Stripe API). 🤯
See how it works below:
As of today you can now find us at ✨
We’ve redone our homepage. AND a new demo.
Learn more about what’s possible with Equals, how our customers use us, or sign up to try for free at
Ever tried to do a burn analysis directly off your company bank account? Yeah it's a pain.
Today we're launching our Plaid connector. Pull transactions from any bank account or credit card into Equals' full-featured spreadsheet in a couple of clicks.
Watch
@bobbypinero
's demo!
ARR reporting is a f***ing nightmare.
But it doesn't have to be.
Starting today, we're ready and waiting to set up an investor-grade ARR reporting with your Stripe data–for you.
->
Here's how:
🧵
Ever opened a spreadsheet and not known where to begin? How should we track MRR? Cohorted retention?...
Today we're launching templates, so that you can measure your business like the best.
We're live on
@ProductHunt
right now!
We’ve launched three times on
@ProductHunt
.
We’ve taken home Product of the Day awards.
Now, it’s time for the biggest one yet: the Golden Kitty.
Your votes will help decide if we get it. Today’s the last day, we’d really appreciate your support! 🏆
Spreadsheet-ers, meet Dashboards.
You could always spreadsheet. And now you can dashboard (in your spreadsheet), too.
→
Here are three reasons why you’ll love them 🧵
Today we launch Saved Queries in Equals ⚡️
You can now save queries in one place within Equals, access them from any workbook, share them with teammates, and push changes.
Never pull the same data in two different ways again.
Check it out 👇
Happy spreadsheet day!
Today, 43 years ago, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet was released. To celebrate, we wanted to reflect on the milestones that made the spreadsheet so popular—and powerful.
The 80s and 90s were wild 🎢. More👇
After a few months of validating the idea with pilot customers like
@DescriptApp
, today we're stoked to make our newest offering available to everyone.
With decades of collective experience scaling reporting from the ground up at the likes of
@stripe
,
@Atlassian
,
@Box
,…
We're publishing our first book!
"The Ultimate Guide to ARR" hits digital bookshelves next week.
Mamoon Hamid (
@mamoonha
), Partner at Kleiner Perks (
@kleinerperkins
), says it best:
"If I could get one thing from all our early-stage portfolio companies, it'd be better ARR…
“There’s so much to be gained from having everything about your company in one place. Equals is the tool that helps me ditch all other tools.” Learn more about how
@mohalrej
and the team at
@cycls_
use Equals to make better, quicker decisions. ⚡️
🧐 Looking for a prewritten query to define ARR from Stripe data? We’ve got you covered.
Fire up our ARR Build template and get live numbers in <5️⃣ mins. 🔥
Try it out:
Read more:
New today! Our query builder now supports joins.
Connect a database and build complex queries without knowing SQL.
Connect multiple data sources and join *across* them, again no SQL.
For non-technical teams, this is a powerful way to unlock access to your data.
Watch 👇
We're live on
@ProductHunt
!
Meet the all-new AI Assist(ant): Rebuilt, redesigned, and ready to chat.
Powered by
@OpenAI
's GPT-4 Turbo, it's wicked smart. And fast.
Check it out and upvote if you like what you see:
Cat’s out of the bag. We’re a finalist in
@ProductHunt
’s Golden Kitty Awards! 🏆 We’re thrilled to be nominated, and need your help getting across the finish line.
Show your support for Equals in the Data & Analytics category:
When did marketing get so damn complicated?
Every time I open my feed, there's a new framework for this and a new framework for that.
Someone sharing how to do or think about some aspect of marketing (often in an overly complex way).
Don't get me wrong. Frameworks are useful.…
It’s incredible how much amazing talent, startups, and great people have come out of
@intercom
Super excited
@williamvholden
joined
@heyequals
as Head of Sales!
Happy National ARR Day!
Well, it's not really, but we did publish The Ultimate Guide to ARR. 🎉
Inside, you'll find 72 pages and 7 chapters of clear insights and practical advice, including:
- The Components of ARR
- Cohorting ARR
- Defining Your ARR
- Building ARR
- Acting on…
You've never seen a spreadsheet do this…
Join subscription data from
@Stripe
with product usage data from
@Segment
with (or without) SQL.
It's never been easier to get the data you need to answer questions like, “Are customers with higher spend more engaged in the product?”.
Last week
@bobbypinero
wrote about how we tried freemium and how it didn't work.
During that experiment we tried removing *another* piece of onboarding friction – our datasource requirement.
It also didn't work. Get the full story from
@benmcredmond
➡️
You only have to look at our changelog to see that we like to ship fast:
These are our Cofounder and CPO,
@benmcredmond
's, 8 principles that guide *how* we do it.
Today we launched Dashboards in
@heyequals
.
As of now we’re
#1
on
@producthunt
🙏
tl;dr → now you can build BI-grade dashboards in a spreadsheet.
You might be thinking… “Does the world really need more dashboards!?”
Yes. A story 👇
—
One of the first times I remember…
Dropping in 1 week: The Ultimate Guide to ARR.
Packed with decades of wisdom from the likes of
@intercom
&
@Atlassian
— It's your north star to scaling best-in-class ARR reporting from the ground up.
And it's already flying off the digital shelves.
Reserve your free copy ->…
Here are 12 of my favourite light websites, in alphabetical order.
1)
@attio
's website is full of fine detail and interesting touches. They use colour only when they have to. Nowhere to hide, and they pulled it off.
AI + Spreadsheets = Less troubleshooting, more doing.
AI Assist auto-detects errors in your formulas and queries, then generates fixes you can apply with a click.
See for yourself 👉
Equals is a spreadsheet natively connected to your data.
Our most powerful integrations are to SQL databases, for which we’ve built the best, free SQL editor on the market.
Familiar. Fast. Shareable. Versioned. Use spreadsheet formulas in place of SQL.
Watch. And more 👇
Give me a cell….give me a chart…give me a table…give me an AI summary!
What’s that spell?
Dashboards!*
See for yourself 👇🏻
* we’re much better with numbers than words
Analysis should feel delightful. Over the past few weeks, we’ve added some polish to our pivot tables including:
⚡️ Major speed improvements (over 10x faster)
➕ New field settings (like count unique)
🔘 Ability to toggle grand totals on / off
We 💜
@NotionHQ
— it turns out they love us too!
But don’t take our word for it. Take Nic's.
Here’s what Nic + Notion's Accounting team has to say about using Equals for tracking ARR, month end reporting, and more. 👇
“I don’t need to hire a Salesforce specialist to build me dashboards or buy a fancy BI tool to extract information I need on a weekly basis. Everything in Equals is easy to set up.”
Check out how
@davidb1230
+ his team have been using Equals 👇
Check out how
@kotluv
and Berry Street use Equals. Highlights include:
🔍 Access to data for everyone on the team
🍽 Specialized views to 5x productivity
♻️ Do the spreadsheet work once, then set things to auto-update
⚡️ Make better decisions, faster
Looking for a better way to align on company KPIs?
@MaseraGiancarlo
sat down with us and shared how the team at
@LevityAI
uses Equals as a learning center. Here's how they gave data visibility to everyone on their team 🔦📚
It's time for your Weekly Wrap of what we shipped in Equals:
New
Offline? No sweat. Workbooks now auto-save your progress by locally storing action logs. So keep calm and carry on (even when the internet doesn't).
Improved
Sheets now auto-scroll to accommodate even the…
Welcome back to your Weekly Wrap of what we shipped in Equals:
New
• We've introduced stacked combo charts in Equals. Column totals are coming soon!
• You can now connect to MotherDuck from Equals. To give it a spin, reach out to us at help
@equals
.com.
Improved
• We now…
Time to kick off your week with the latest on what we shipped:
🔗 Improved Netsuite Connector: Explore Netsuite data using the Query Builder, or sync custom reports and saved searches straight from your workbook.
📊 Download Charts: Love that chart? Right-click to download your…
Big improvement to charts, thanks to your feedback! You can now…
📐Try 12 different charting options
🏎Use X axis aggregations to save you time
♾️Plot unlimited data points
🔍 Easily customize in the sidebar
Insert a chart, click on the ✏️ and build beautiful dashboards.
Today we’re talking 💸. Plan for the future by setting up your cash runway model in Equals.
It’s the best way to stay on top of spend, avoid unpleasant surprises, and perfect the time to seek investment. Try the template today.
👉 Read the full post:
Sam Isaac (from
@SlackHQ
and now
@magicaltome
) weighs in on why great ARR reporting isn't just a check-the-box exercise — when done right, it's the drumbeat that drives the business forward.
For more, join our next session of FP&A Anonymous for direct insights from the finance…
📣 Marketers: Want the fastest way to maximize the ROI of your Google Ad spend?
Of course you do. We got you. 🤜🏻 🤛🏻
Start tracking + analyzing cost and performance in a single click -- cliche, but true.
Why wait? 👉🏻
Check out our first client spotlight to hear how
@mikerondinaro
and the team at
@heyparkday
leveraged Equals to drive a 3x conversion improvement in their client orders! 🔦⚡️
1/ New (and improved) this week. 📈
Better charting in Equals. We've made some serious updates to how you create charts in your Equals spreadsheet, making for a snappier experience.
Check out the highlights below:
LTV:CAC. Your key to scaling efficiently. 🔑
Our newest template instantly generates a live LTV:CAC dashboard powered by your live data from Stripe. It even updates itself.
Sound good? Get the full scoop →
We often are asked which integrations we support.
The answer: quite a few!
So today we're launching our integrations page to showcase everything you can do with Equals.
Check it out:
Today we’re sharing the story of how
@SnowflakeDB
transformed its forecasting process.
Next up in the Operator’s Dilemma series,
@chris_burgner
sat down with Brad Floering, their VP of FP&A, to learn how they improved their forecast accuracy from 20%+ to 0-2% consistently.
In our third installment of the Operator’s Dilemma series, we sat down with Brad Floering, VP of FP&A
@SnowflakeDB
.
In this story, he tells us how his team improved forecast accuracy from within 20% to 0-2% in lead up to their IPO.
Blog post below 👇
Our eng team is on 🔥! We recently released massive improvements in speed for large workbooks (100,000+ rows) and optimized other features like sorting, filtering, and more.
Here’s a behind the scenes from
@thatmikefellow
on how it all works:
Building a spreadsheet is hard. Making it performant is harder.
Fortunately we have the very best engineers on it like
@thatmikefellow
. He wrote about a massive performance win.
Engineer, or not, it’s a fun sneak peek into how a spreadsheet works.
In building Equals over the last 2 years, we’ve learned so much from others. That’s why we pay it forward whenever we can.
Today, we’re releasing the pitch and data deck we used to raise our $16M Series A led by
@a16z
.
Top lessons learned and links to download 🧵👇
It's time for your weekly wrap of what's new in Equals!
🔄 Refresh data schemas - Reflect changes to your data schema from within Equals with a click.
🧪 Formulas for A/B testing - Spot the winning variant with the CHI.SQ and NORM.DIST formulas.
Plus:
- DATEVALUE functions…
What do you get when you combine Cmd+J with Cmd+K?
Cmd+JK! 😅
AKA the all-new Equals Command Bar.
The convenience of every command and the power of AI at your fingertips. It’s the one shortcut to rule them all.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll share how you can use AI Assist in Equals to make your analysis 10x faster.
First up: configuring charts 📊
Sidebars slowing you down? Keep your fingers on the keys — and let AI Assist do the heavy lifting 💪
“Instead of hiring an analyst, everyone on the team is empowered to build what they need. Equals is a familiar tool that allows us to easily extract mission critical information.” —
@kylejaster
Learn how
@eatharvie
uses Equals to unlock insights 💡
📢 Meet the all-new AI Assist(ant): Rebuilt. Redesigned. Ready to chat.
Powered by
@OpenAI
's GPT-4 Turbo, AI Assist is ready to help you write, edit, explain, and fix SQL queries, formulas, charts, and more—right inside your spreadsheet.
Live now on
@ProductHunt
→…
The day has finally come.
Adding to our growing list of supported formulas and satisfying our top-voted feature request, the following ARRAY formulas are now available in Equals. If you know, you know.
• UNIQUE
• FILTER
• RANDARRAY
• XLOOKUP
• XMATCH
• TEXTSPLIT
Happy…
"Today is launch day. It’s 6 a.m. on a Wednesday, and you’re already awake. In fact, you've been awake since 3:01 a.m., which is when your launch went live on Product Hunt."
Marketing folks, sound familiar? Our newest installment is a must-read 👀
To freemium or not to freemium? 💡
We're diving deeper with
@bobbypinero
's latest take in
@lennysan
's newsletter. More stories, more data, and crucial lessons learned for every SaaS founder grappling with the freemium question 🚀
I’m increasingly on the lookout for stories of failures, because failure can teach us the most enduring lessons.
So when
@bobbypinero
tweeted about how adding a freemium plan to
@heyequals
nearly destroyed his business, I asked if he’d go many layers deeper and share his…
New week, new Equals magic! 🌟
🔗 Cell references in SQL queries: Filter data pulls on the fly by referencing workbook cells from SQL queries.
📊 5 new Quickbooks reports: Dive into accounting data with five (count ‘em) new reports.
To keep tabs 👀
Here's your Weekly Wrap with everything we shipped last week:
New
Sprucing up your workbook? Use CMD + Y (ctrl + Y on Windows) to quickly re-do your last action, including any formatting.
Improved
Filters in workbooks are now user-specific, so you can drill down without…
New year, new home for Wrap Text ↩️ – now on
@SubstackInc
.
Towards the end of last year, we (re)invested in sharing quality stories and ideas about building and scaling startups.
Here's a round-up of the top 5 posts 🧵
“We went from looking at our top of funnel and pipeline health from a weekly cadence to creating a daily feedback loop. That kind of speed is invaluable.” –
@jonathanmgrant
, CFO
@Osano
Read the full story below 👇