A couple of months ago I launched https://groundera.com — a site that aggregates indie books by entrepreneurs. It got a lot of traction from Reddit, Product Hunt and social networks. A week ago i sold Groundera. Right now I'm working on the new project called Tabledo http://tabledo.com and want to tell you a short story about my path.

When i started working on Groundera, I collected all information in a spreadsheet to better understand the amount of data i had, such as authors, titles, URLs, descriptions, URLs to download books, etc. A prepared an image to show you the amount of data http://i.imgur.com/PccjWiY.png

Then with my partner, we built a simple site engine that transformed data from a spreadsheet into a site. It was magic. You add a spreadsheet URL, push a sync button, and a site with hundreds of pages is alive. Want to remove a book or add description? Update the spreadsheet and push the sync button!

When we sold Groundera, i started thinking of what to do next. I love the solution we built. And I suggested we can rebuild the site engine from scratch and launch a service that can transforms spreadsheets into standalone sites.

Now my partner works on software for Tabledo and I do business development. I did simple landing page and got 6 clients (from Betalist) who paid $10/m for the solution. We already made installations for them. Yes, the service isn't ready, but we can make installations by our hands. It works, people are willing to pay!

For example, one of the clients used our service to launch an MVP of his startup.

If you have spreadsheets you want to turn into sites, let me know. I would be happy to move you to a beta-testers group.