I only use Google Sheets

Summary

Why I only use Google sheets 30 Sep, 2025 To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess what the new requirements are and either try enhance the current solution or find an alternative that better solve the problem. In my case the easiest solution is often creating a new Google sheet. I entered the workforce about 9 months ago and my optimism for building new tools and services that help the small starting up business I work for has all vanished. I work in an environment that changes every 2 months or so, as my boss finds a new business venture she wants to enter. This has me starting and stopping quite a few projects that could have been solved in an afternoon with a quick Google Sheet. I have listed a few examples below of some of the projects I have wasted time on instead of making a Google Sheet: I spent 2 months designing and making an admin panel to manage and track incoming cargo for the business. This panel was supposed to help the business categorise and better manage packages and customer data. This admin panel was used twice and never again. A Google Sheet could have been easily used for this and is currently being used for this task. Three weeks were spent creating an MVP for a quote system that automatically calculated the duty and taxes for people ordering certain goods. Zimbabwean taxes and duties are often very complex and having our customers know exactly what to pay would create a better customer journey and make the process faster since we would not have to wait on our third party duty processing company to reply to us on every customer inquiry. In the end, we saw one of our competitors tax and duty breakdown table and we just copied it and put it in a Google Sheet. Spent 2 months researching, having meetings (often > 1hr long) and looking for a good CRM to use for the business. I would sit down compare and contrast different feature`s and p...