Create through Google Sheets

Ahh Google Sheets, the little cousin of the almighty Excel that’s born in the cloud. When it was launched in early 2006, it was this gimmicky Excel-wanna-be that works in web browsers. People gave it a chance because

• it was free
• you can use it on any computer (PC, Mac, Linux) as long as there is a web browser
• there are no version incompatibility problems that plague Excel (Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel XP, etc.)

Excel was the real deal. It was producing financial reports, running business operations, and even running multi-billion dollar trading desks in large financial institutions.

Fast forward to today, Google Sheets is ubiquitous in both personal lives and in the business world. Google Sheets has become almost synonymous with spreadsheets. It’s still free, it still runs in the web browsers, you can collaborate with anyone with a Gmail account, and you still don’t need to worry about version incompatibility. It has also become so powerful and feature-rich that there are few things it can’t do. I have personally seen the impact Google Sheets can make:

• financial analytics and projections
• data visualization
• personalized mail merge
• schedule tweets
• inventory management
• manage online payments
• shipment tracking
• and many more!

A list of amazing things Google Sheets can do may naturally make you wonder, can I build any cool features myself? The short answer is YES. Google Sheets is fairly easy to learn. There is a vast amount of blogs, videos, templates, online courses, and other resources available. Some might argue that “learnability” could be one of the factors that fueled the rise in popularity of Google Sheets.

Despite the superior learnability, it can be difficult to adapt the learning to your specific needs. Everyone has their own technical foundations. Everyone has their unique ways of learning. It can be a daunting or impossible task to find a learning resource that clicks with you. Whatever learning style you might have, learning tends to stick better when it is done with a concrete project and hands-on exercise. The best project is the one you are building or wrestling with, right now.

The approach of real-project-based problem solving and learning requires much more focus from both the learner and the tutor because

• the project might be time-sensitive
• the learner needs to communicate all the necessary details about the project and the issues to the tutor
• the tutor needs to understand the context and the needs specific to the project

Though it has a higher upfront investment, this approach comes with greater rewards:

• the solution will be custom-tailored
• the learning will be much more focused and targeted
• the learning is extensible to account for future changes and growth of the project

The real-project-based approach is what Holy Sheets adopts to create solutions for you and to help you create.

Typically, the available help for solutions and learning is mutually exclusive: you either get a solution without learning, or you get learning resources on toy or hypothetical problems that you can’t relate to. Holy Sheets brings the two together by giving you the fish and teaching you how to fish.

We live in an increasingly creator-driven world. Everyone is more empowered to create in many different ways and channels, and Google Sheets is one of the creator tools with a huge user base. Holy Sheets is excited for the creator economy because the vision of Holy Sheets is help more people become creators through Google Sheets.

Ready to learn and create with your Google Sheets project? Give us a holler at Holy Sheets! 👋