I Hate Corrupt Files
Fix corrupt Excel, Word & PowerPoint files, and see why
Details
- External ID
- 1259474
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- I Hate Corrupt Files
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- User Experience, Spreadsheets, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Most repair tools are a black box: file in, file out, no idea what changed. This one opens the Excel, Word or PowerPoint file, checks every part against ECMA-376, and shows the exact fault: the XML with a caret on it and the cell or slide it damages. It catches what AI-generated files get wrong: numbers stored as text, formulas whose saved answer is false, XLOOKUP that shows #NAME? on older Excel. No file comes back unless the Open XML SDK accepts it. Free, no account.
Enrichment
- Theme
- spreadsheet and tabular data tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- file repair tool for office documents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A web interface for uploading files is trivial, but parsing, validating, and rebuilding corrupt OpenXML ZIP archives strictly against the ECMA-376 specification without Microsoft Office installed requires deep low-level format knowledge.
What it would actually take: The architecture would combine a backend (likely .NET or Rust) utilizing the Open XML SDK and custom binary/ZIP repair routines. The hard part is low-level ECMA-376 schema repair, such as fixing broken XML trees, rebuilding package relationships (.rels), and repairing raw byte offsets in corrupt ZIP containers while passing validation checks. This requires deep systems programming and OpenXML specification mastery.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- DocTabs · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Apex doc · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- xlreset · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ExcelifyXML · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ABA File Converter · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DocMind — AI Document Automation · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Colophon · ph · 2026-09-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- paperlight · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- No other launches for this product.
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