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First Business Should Be a Spreadsheet (endler.dev)
64 points by jicea on April 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


CRUD apps don't take a lot of work to do and they usually solve real problems for small and mid size businesses in your area. That's a real business opportunity in most cities in the world.

Not everyone needs to be Google.


This seems to be a spreadsheety kind of day; there was a link to a Wired article on spreadsheets [0], which has links to other spreadsheety stuff.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/spreadsheets-are-hot-and-crankin...


A lot of people are applying this approach in gumroad, actually. Time to time I can see Notion tables with diverse curated content for sale


I essentially paid my way through college by turning SMB's spreadsheets into CRUD webapps + some tiny reporting. There is a huge, huge market for this if you wanted to trade some of the time you would spend writing code with marketing, cold calls, chasing down clients for invoicing, and other non-tech stuff.


I loved this article and explored the rest of this blog. It really is top notch!


Amazingly simple and useful idea.




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