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🗓️ 13 November 2025
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In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, meet a side hustler who built a simple browser-based spreadsheet tool. It earns enough to cover his rent each month!
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:52.9 | Tomorrow we have a listener question coming out about a freelancer who's using AI tools, |
| 1:02.6 | just like so many people are these days. |
| 1:05.0 | And he's wondering if he needs to disclose that to his clients. |
| 1:08.8 | We'll talk about that in some more detail tomorrow. |
| 1:12.3 | But I was thinking about it because today, today's story, we have a software developer in Colorado who makes a specific tool. It is a |
| 1:19.1 | browser-based CSV converter. Basically takes spreadsheet files and cleans up exports from a real estate system. So basically, real estate agents |
| 1:30.6 | use this system and he has found a way to clean it up, make their lives easier. He profits from it. |
| 1:36.3 | It makes perfect sense. He's solving a problem. He's providing a remedy or a solution to a need. |
| 1:42.2 | And today it runs mostly on autopilot. The creator says it now reliably |
| 1:46.1 | pays his rent each month. So pretty cool story. This is our throwback Thursday segment where we take a look |
| 1:52.2 | at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Last week, we heard how a fitness fan |
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