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Spreadsheet to App: Turn Excel Into a Real App (and Keep the Sheet)

spreadsheetto.app turns Excel, Google Sheets, and CSV files into a web app with logins, forms, permissions, and automations, while your spreadsheet stays in place with two-way sync. The word2md team breaks down how it works and who it fits.

We build word2md, a small tool that converts Word files to Markdown, so our daily work is files: docx, xlsx, pdf in, something usable out. Spend enough time here and a pattern shows up. The content inside a file is alive; the file itself is a dead container. A customer list sits in an xlsx and nobody can work with it — you share it, everyone downloads a copy, everyone edits their own, and a week later nobody knows which version is real. Someone on our team used to work on collaborative spreadsheet products and saw this at company after company: the filename evolves from clients.xlsx to clients-FINAL-v3-DONT-DELETE.xlsx. The spreadsheet isn't the problem. Using file-sharing as the way to collaborate is. We recently spent time with a new product that takes a clean swing at this: spreadsheetto.app. Its answer: turn the spreadsheet into an app.