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I'm a Google Sheets / Apps Script developer. A recruiting firm owner came to me needing a pipeline CRM before a cold outreach campaign starting June 23rd. Six pipeline stages, company records, deal values, a live dashboard with overdue follow-up flags, and a sidebar form for fast daily entry.

He'd been using Streak CRM as a reference point but didn't want the overhead. Didn't want Salesforce. Didn't want a monthly bill for features he'd never use.

Right tool for this was Google Sheets + Apps Script. What surprised me was how fast the whole thing came together using Claude as an architectural partner — not just a code generator.

`Total build time: under an hour. Here's e

I know I should know this, but is it even possible for separate Excel tables sharing the same rows across a sheet to filter independently of one another? Like if you filter the first table by a column, it would not reduce the visible rows of the second table. I feel like I've done this before but I may be confusing it with Pivot Table behavior. I also feel like independent filtering should be impossible in a spreadsheet architecture, but I've been surprised before.

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Not here to sell anything but I am a freelancer who builds custom tools for businesses in different industries. I just wrapped up a budgeting and payment schedule tracker in Excel for a luxury home builder who needed automation and data validation.

Now that I'm done with that, I was curious:

If you're building high-end custom homes, how are you managing your budgets and payment schedules right now?

• Still using Excel? (Templates, homegrown tools?)
• BuilderTrend / CoConstruct / JobTread or something else?
• Fully custom setup?

I’m not pitching anything — just genuinely curious how others are approaching this since this project turned out to be a pretty big transformation. I never go

For those of you running HVAC businesses with a few techs on staff — how are you currently tracking performance metrics?

Curious about things like:

• Do you monitor revenue per job or per hour per technician?
• Are you tracking first-time fix rate, callbacks, or customer satisfaction?
• How do you estimate technician-level profitability?
• Are you pulling reports from your CRM (like ServiceTitan)? If so, is it giving you the visibility you need?

I’m genuinely curious what’s working for you and what’s been frustrating. I know some platforms offer this as an add-on, or buried in their reporting tools — but I’ve also heard from a few folks that it's either too expensive or hard to customize.

I’m curious to hear from anyone who has turned their Excel skills into a legitimate income stream, side hustle, or full-blown business.

Specifically: • Did you productize something (e.g., templates, dashboards, niche tools)? • Did you consult, freelance, or build custom solutions for companies? • How did you get your first paying clients or your first sales? • What platforms (Upwork, Etsy, Gumroad, Shopify, etc.) or strategies worked best for you? • What niches or industries did you focus on, if any? • If you were starting today, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

I’m looking for real-world stories, not just vague “it’s possible” comments — if you genuinely

I’m looking for a skilled AI Prompt Engineer or Technical Writer with experience in translating structured data, formulas, and calculations from Excel workbooks into well-formed AI prompts.

Budget: $200 fixed (negotiable)

This project involves reviewing an Excel workbook with multiple tabs containing:

• Data Entry Fields – Static or user-input values
• Calculations & Formulas – Excel logic that needs to be represented in AI-friendly prompts
• Inter-tab Value Passing – Data dependencies between different sheets

Your role is to analyze these structures and create clear, structured prompts that can be used to guide an AI-powered web application in processing the same logic dynam

I have the front-end/UI for a web app that emulates a multisheet Excel file currently deployed to a stage server.

I need an experienced ExpressJS developer with EJS proficiency to flesh out the migration of worksheet formulas and cell references within and across 5 worksheets over to the 5 tabbed `app.ejs` view in the existing web app.

Ultimately, this requires someone proficient with Excel and formulas as well as in JavaScript to translate everything over.

Some JavaScript development is already complete, like that for the first tab of the app. It's mostly a form that runs figures to other forms and makes calculations based on the initial input form.

There are 4 of 5 total

My latest composition/idea/wip:

https://toddbrannon.bandcamp.com/track/emerald-demo

I decided to take the plunge and download Cursor (Windows) but now my basic commands no longer work in the terminal. I might be stupid, but what am I missing?

I've seen some posts about the displeasure of getting the short end of the stick when job seeking because other candidates have a referral or inside connection. At 55 years old, it led me to geek out a bit and being the analytical thinker I am, I decided to reflect on my own experience - mostly of how I have benefitted from knowing someone on the inside.

Going a bit deeper, I decided to analyze my career and reflect on my success in getting hired based on a few other criteria:

- Referral or internal connection
- Seasonal demand (i.e. Christmas holiday staff increase)
- Internal hire

In a nutshell, out of 14 total job positions I have held over the course of my adult life dating bac

Spreadsheet improvement and automation. Data analytics and report development.

https://www.toddbrannonportfolio.com

I am a tech/software developer and I use Upwork as both a freelancer and as a client (when I need help debugging or just share the workload - Upwork is not my only lead generation). I recently posted a quick project to debug a React app and got tons of proposals within the first hour.

I included both the link for the stage site and for the GitHub repo. Within the first couple of hours, I got 3 issues/pull requests (only one of which I could trace back to a proposal) which amounts to free work offered. To be sure, it was a one line fix, depending on how you look at it.

A couple of things that I take from this is that the devs who opened the issues/PR’s are either looking for brownie point