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Back when I was working on another startup, I hired a freelancer friend to create "The Freelance Rate Calculator" [0], which ended up on Sourceful a few months
by ollerac 6y ago
Back when I was working on another startup, I hired a freelancer friend to create "The Freelance Rate Calculator" [0], which ended up on Sourceful a few months later. Before that, it went viral on Twitter (112,570 impressions) [1] and brought in a ton of traffic to my startup's home page.
Ever since then, I can't shake the feeling that I should probably turn it into a simple SaaS app.
It really made me think that nicely designed Google Sheets documents are probably the perfect way to prototype some applications. They're free, fast to build, and anyone can access them... And, apparently, you can get them to look pretty damn nice.
[0] https://sourceful.co.uk/doc/101/the-freelancer-rate-calculator https://sourceful.co.uk/doc/101/the-freelancer-rate-calculat...
[1] https://twitter.com/panphora/status/1094081680166531072 https://twitter.com/panphora/status/1094081680166531072
- MattSourceful 6y agoIt's a great spreadsheet! It's been doing really well on Sourceful and is currently the highest rated doc for tag "freelance". I couldn't agree more with you about Google docs for prototyping. A Google Sheet + Form (e.g. collecting signup emails) combination offers some serious potential. I would like Sourceful to be a place where projects like that are promoted and initial discussion around them takes place. Twitter/Facebook are not ideal places for that as the content there is too ephemeral.