Ep. 3239 - TBT: This Tiny Spreadsheet Tool Pays the Rent
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
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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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
| 0:14.7 | business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business |
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 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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