Show HN: I integrated Ollama into Excel to run local LLMs

(pythonandvba.com)

9 points | by SvenBosau 1 day ago

4 comments

  • SvenBosau 1 day ago
    I'm an Excel nerd. Started out as a business analyst and now build Excel templates and add-ins for small businesses and data folks.

    I made an integration for ChatGPT in Excel right when it came out. Shared it on YouTube. Many users liked the idea, but were hesitant, as spreadsheets often include financial or other sensitive data they don’t want to send to OpenAI.

    So I built XLlama to fix that. It runs everything locally using Ollama. It’s useful if you want to analyze text or data without leaving Excel. Also works well for tasks like extracting names, emails, or phone numbers from text.

    Hope it might be also helpful to you.

    Sven

  • atmanactive 19 hours ago
    Make it work with LibreOfficeCalc and I'm bying.
    • SvenBosau 3 hours ago
      Never used LibreOffice Calc before and I'm not familiar with the ecosystem for building add-ins. I think I'll stick with MS Excel for now, but thanks for the feedback.
  • zipping1549 15 hours ago
    Naming your company `Python&VBA` is worse idea than posting this AI slop and fake commenting...
    • SvenBosau 3 hours ago
      Agree on the naming. I started the website mainly to share Python and VBA tutorials, hence the name. I added the products later.
  • skyzouwdev 17 hours ago
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