CellPointer
Never lose your place in Excel again
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CellPointer makes the active cell in Excel easy to track by extending visual guides across its row and column. It works alongside Excel without changing your workbook, helping you stay oriented when working with large spreadsheets. A simple Windows productivity tool for anyone who spends hours in Excel.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: spreadsheet tools and extensions · 141 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Productivity
- Spreadsheets
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More like this: all 141 launches in spreadsheet tools and extensions →
Could you build this?
Partial Web or Office JS add-ins cannot easily draw non-intrusive floating overlays across the active Excel grid without modifying the workbook; this requires Windows desktop accessibility or API hooks.
What it would actually take: Requires a native Windows desktop utility (C#/.NET or C++) using Windows Accessibility APIs (UI Automation) or Win32 hooking (SetWindowsHookEx) to detect Excel's active cell coordinates. It draws a click-through transparent layered overlay window matching the grid position, demanding specialized Windows OS and Win32 interop programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 151 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 152 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 144 days after the earliest competitor.
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