It's a story how I made a site with 100 indie books, sold it and used the money to launch a service that transforms data from spreadsheets into standalone sites / micro-services<p>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.<p>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<p>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!<p>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.<p>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!<p>For example, one of the clients used our service to launch an MVP of his startup.<p>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.