Executive Summary

Many non-technical small businesses—an addressable base of roughly 200 million SMBs worldwide—struggle to maintain websites and simple content workflows because traditional CMSs are either too complex or too expensive, while custom development is out of reach. These businesses already use spreadsheets as their operational control plane, and with an estimated global SMB spend that equates to about $18.0B at roughly $90 ARPU/year for basic web presence and CMS needs, there's a clear pain point around usability and cost. A product that turns a spreadsheet (Google Sheets/Excel/CSV) into a lightweight, validated CMS with two-way sync, role-based permissions, version history, and one-click export to static/headless hosting could meet this need quickly. Priced simply (for example $5–$15/month per site) and bundled with vertical templates for restaurants, salons, and local services, it could capture a meaningful slice of the $18B market—hence the high market score (92/100) and revenue potential (88/100). Timing is favorable: no-code adoption, the spreadsheet-as-interface trend, and cheap static/headless hosting lower technical and cost barriers, while a medium level of competition means product differentiation is achievable. To stand out you must prioritize non-technical UX, reliable bidirectional syncing, pre-built vertical templates, easy onboarding and migration, and clear security/backup guarantees; these are the features competing platforms often miss. The main challenges will be customer acquisition cost, handling edge-case content beyond tabular data, and building trust with SMBs, but with a focused product and tight go-to-market on a few verticals this idea is worth testing.

Market Opportunity

Convert spreadsheets into a simple CMS for non-tech small businesses targets a $18.0B = 200M small businesses x $90 ARPU/year (global SMBs who pay for web presence and basic CMS) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 10% CAGR (website/no-code tooling adoption among SMBs).

Key trends driving demand: No-code movement -- more SMBs adopt visual tools instead of custom dev, increasing demand for sheet-driven UX.; Spreadsheet-as-interface -- businesses prefer spreadsheets as a control plane for ops and content.; Headless/static site tooling -- cheap, fast hosting and decoupled frontends reduce time to publish.; Generative AI for content -- AI speeds content creation, SEO, and templating for small sites..

Key competitors include Sheet2Site, Glide, Softr, AppSheet (Google), Webflow.

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Convert spreadsheets into a simple CMS for non-tech small businesses

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