Better Sheets: Google Sheets tools — $5.6K a month, self-reported

Better Sheets sells learning resources, templates, generators, automation tools, and publishing software for Google Sheets users. Its $5.6K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of September 2026.

What it actually sells

Better Sheets sells Google Sheets courses, templates, tools, tutorials, generators, and publishing software. The site calls it a tutorial library covering courses, templates, tools, and Apps Script tutorials.

The publishing software turns spreadsheets into public websites without coding or embedding. The site lists catalogs, directories, and galleries made from spreadsheet data, each shared through a public URL.

How it charges

The site shows yearly membership at $90 and monthly membership at $9. Membership includes courses, tutorials, unlimited formula help, member templates, and one hosted site on a Better Sheets subdomain. The site also lists a $275 lifetime deal on AppSumo.

Where customers come from

The site offers free Google Sheets tutorials on YouTube. It also offers 40 beginner-friendly videos covering Apps Script foundations, including loops, onEdit triggers, MailApp, and pulling data from APIs.

What stands out

The site says, “Operators, marketers, and founders who wanted more than the help docs.” It also shows ways to monetize templates, planners, and workflows, keep proprietary data safe, and connect payments to access.

From the official site

Operators, marketers, and founders who wanted more than the help docs.

Monetize templates, planners, and workflows. Keep proprietary data safe. Connect payments to people's access.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Better Sheets's $5.6K a month is higher than 61% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that demand would come from operators, marketers, founders, creators, sellers, and learners who use Google Sheets and need instruction, templates, automation, publishing, or protected spreadsheet access. Distribution would need to use visible channels such as free YouTube tutorials, the Apps Script and API lessons, and Google Workspace Marketplace publishing instruction.

The difficult parts would be maintaining spreadsheet tools and integrations, supporting payment and access controls, handling direct user help, and competing with other spreadsheet courses and software. The breadth of courses, tools, publishing features, generators, sites, and support also creates a substantial product and maintenance burden.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

Better Sheets combines Google Sheets instruction with templates, automation, publishing, protected access, hosted sites, and direct help. Its membership places these resources and software under one offer.

Sources

Better Sheets official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Better Sheets pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of September 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure