Spreadsheet data cleaning for businesses
Cleans messy Excel data for companies and sometimes builds simple web apps to replace the spreadsheets. Bills per row, flat fee or hourly depending on the project.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Services and freelancing95% surex
- Earns from
- Service fees98% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $10077% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Part-time66% surex
- Where
- Online93% surex
- Coding
- Needs codingLow confidence59% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by mro_master in “Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?”, April 21, 2019
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