Magic CSV
Transform CSVs with plain English, no formulas
Details
- External ID
- 46441419
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Magic CSV
- Website domain
- magiccsv.app
- Launched
- Dec. 31, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6288167938931297
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built a tool that lets you describe CSV transformations in plain English and get clean data back. Upload a CSV, type something like "split address into street, city, state, zip" or "standardize all dates to YYYY-MM-DD", and it does it. I built this because I kept seeing people struggle with the same repetitive spreadsheet tasks—date formatting, splitting columns, cleaning up phone numbers—and reaching for Python or formulas when they just wanted the data fixed. It's free to try: https://magiccsv.app Would love feedback on what transformations people actually need. What's the messiest CSV problem you've dealt with?
Enrichment
- Theme
- spreadsheet and tabular data tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- transform csvs using natural language
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The core tool is a web UI that takes CSV uploads, sends user instructions to an LLM API (or code-interpreter sandbox) to generate transformation code, and returns the modified table.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Python, LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.), Free AI chat tools
Concerns raised: Data accuracy issues (e.g., ROT13 mangling data without warning), Unclear market demand vs. DIY alternatives, Concerns about sharing sensitive data with third party, Prompt injection vulnerabilities, Low willingness to pay among those who need it
Feature requests: Data validation/verification to detect mangled output
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 109 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 110 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.
- CSV Viewer Online · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Free Online Data Formatting Tools · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SheetLingo · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- CSVTools · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- jsoncsvonline · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Convert369 · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Accurate Bank Statement Converter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DeepTable · hn · 2026-03-31 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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