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About a year ago my (new-ish founder) boss came to me and asked me to build him a custom dashboard. "I have all the data in a spreadsheet but I want it in a dashboard" he said. I was a specialized systems dev, only occasionally doing a bit of webdev if necessary and really didn't have time for those kind of errands.

I showed him this tutorial I had recently seen. Just a few minutes and the thumbnail, about how to build a "dashboard" in excel. https://youtu.be/z26zbiGJnd4?si=HWn8qTbozD8vmXiF

"Oh wow, I didn't know excel could look so beautiful!". He asked for the link, never did anything with it of course but was totally satisfied. I am pretty sure he just wanted a shiny toy and also felt inadequate about "just using excel" to do his important founder work. Showing him that excel can look beautiful and is a powerful tool was enough. No more feeling inadequate, no need for an actual (or even excel) dashboard.