this is pretty true, many of the most successful indie hackers I know just use Google Sheets and maybbeeeee Notion

what about you guys??

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/why-i-only-use-google-sheets/

I have listed a few examples below of some of the projects I have wasted time on instead of making a Google Sheet:

I spent 2 months designing and making an admin panel to manage and track incoming cargo for the business. This panel was supposed to help the business categorise and better manage packages and customer data. This admin panel was used twice and never again. A Google Sheet could have been easily used for this and is currently being used for this task.

Three weeks were spent creating an MVP for a quote system that automatically calculated the duty and taxes for people ordering certain goods. Zimbabwean taxes and duties are often very complex and having our customers know exactly what to pay would create a better customer journey and make the process faster since we would not have to wait on our third party duty processing company to reply to us on every customer inquiry. In the end, we saw one of our competitors tax and duty breakdown table and we just copied it and put it in a Google Sheet.

Spent 2 months researching, having meetings (often > 1hr long) and looking for a good CRM to use for the business. I would sit down compare and contrast different feature`s and prices for all the different CRMs we were looking into. We ended up using the free version of Oddo, that is not used that much anyway within the business. To my surprise a few weeks ago i noticed that Google Sheets has a CRM template built into it.

I’m not saying that making a Google Sheet is the best solution to every problem but often times in my situation it is. I usually end up in situations were I never know the full scope of the problem until we start doing the actual work.