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       Show HN: Bricks - One Click Dashboards from Your Data Using AI
        
       Hi HN  We've been building Bricks to make dashboard creation as
       simple as dropping a file.  You upload your data and Bricks does
       the rest: * Detects the structure * Picks the most useful charts
       and tables * Generates plain language insights and summaries *
       Applies a theme * Lets you add blocks using a natural language
       prompt * Exports to PDF or shares as a live link  We built this
       because creating clean dashboards from spreadsheets felt way harder
       than it should be.  We'd love your feedback on: * How useful the
       first dashboard feels * Any missing chart types or formats *
       Anything else that could make it better  Thanks for taking a look.
        
       Author : manpreetsgarha
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-05-20 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (app.thebricks.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (app.thebricks.com)
        
       | smcleod wrote:
       | Looks like it's a browserwalled to users of Chrome or Safari and
       | promotes their use as an "upgrade", blocking all Firefox users.
       | "Improve your experience"              "Please use the latest
       | version of a supported browser"
        
         | manpreetsgarha wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback. Totally hear you.
         | 
         | We're referring specifically to the experience within Bricks,
         | not trying to comment on browsers in general. Right now, we've
         | optimized for Chrome and Safari simply because we're a small
         | team and needed to focus our testing.
         | 
         | That said, we definitely don't want to block anyone out and
         | will take this as a push to improve Firefox support soon.
         | Appreciate you taking the time to check it out.
        
       | qafy wrote:
       | I work on a product quite similar to this so I would love to
       | check out the competition. However, it seems you want me to
       | "improve" my experience by using Chrome or Safari lol. That's
       | quite an interesting opinion...
        
         | manpreetsgarha wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback. Totally hear you.
         | 
         | We're referring specifically to the experience within Bricks,
         | not trying to comment on browsers in general. Right now, we've
         | optimized for Chrome and Safari simply because we're a small
         | team and needed to focus our testing.
         | 
         | That said, we definitely don't want to block anyone out and
         | will take this as a push to improve support for other browsers
         | soon. Appreciate you taking the time to check it out.
        
           | qafy wrote:
           | Yeah I would prefer to just use the product and encounter a
           | bug, or maybe be notified gently with a popup or toast or
           | something that my browser is not officially supported. I
           | understand you can't optimize for every browser, but full
           | page browser wall is quite a hostile solution.
        
             | manpreetsgarha wrote:
             | That's a fair point. We'll definitely consider switching to
             | a softer approach once we've tested the main flow a bit
             | more.
        
       | puppycodes wrote:
       | Sounds interesting but making us login (in my opinion) is an anti
       | pattern and not worth it to check out. Let us play with an
       | example without requiring us to give out our data.
        
         | manpreetsgarha wrote:
         | You are right, this is a miss from our side.
         | 
         | At the moment, editing is only available after login. But here
         | is a dashboard I created using our AI agent. No manual editing
         | was done, just dropped the file and got this result:
         | 
         | https://app.thebricks.com/file/e5c20bbe-dcd0-43ba-a156-e00ca...
         | 
         | No login needed to view. Thanks for checking it out.
        
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