PSA: Every add-in from Excel's add-in store is down, including xlwings Lite. Apparently, it's a global Azure outage that also affects Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft. This doesn't affect self-hosted versions of xlwings Lite, by the way... bbc.com/news/articles/…

I need your help! I'm building xlwings Lite as a solo indie hacker with zero marketing budget. What I do have is an amazing and growing community of users. If xlwings Lite has helped you, it would mean a lot to me if you left a quick review in the add in store 🙏 🙏 🙏 ! 👉

xlwings is a relatively popular solution amongst actuaries. That's why I was invited to speak at the Actuarial Technology Summit, a virtual conference happening next week on December 11! For a 25% discount, use the following code: a84mc67d My talk has the title "Why I Built

My 2025 highlight was launching xlwings Lite at the end of March. It took me just 2 weeks from idea to mostly working. That's because of vibe coding and because most of the code is shared with xlwings Server. I still consider it a proof-of-concept as I didn't have time to work

Over the last 7 months, I was completely tied up. In 2026, I am back in building mode with two simple goals: * Fix Python in Excel: xlwings Lite already does that, but the plan is to make it 10x better. * Fix Copilot in Excel: Microsoft treats Copilot in Excel as a one off

TL;DR: The xlwings video course is now free on YouTube 🚀 Back in 2018, I recorded a video course to help fund the development of xlwings. Today, the course is outdated and platform costs are bigger than the revenues. Instead of updating it, I decided to make it free for

As you know, I’m on a mission to fix the many design flaws of Python in Excel, one by one. In that spirit, I am happy to announce that xlwings Lite now works with your local files! 🚀 Drag and drop files and folders straight into Excel. On Windows, you can even mount a local

Python in Excel without a Python REPL is like Excel without the formula bar. So I added one to xlwings Lite! #pythoninexcel #python #pyodide #xlwings #microsoftexcel