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An AI add-on for Google Sheets that puts spreadsheet tasks inside the user's existing workflow and reached $2,000 MRR.
founder-reported
A narrow tool can earn a place in a huge platform when it removes one repetitive spreadsheet task without asking users to leave their sheet.
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SheetAI is a Google Sheets add-on that brings AI into the spreadsheet workflow. Sanskar Tiwari describes it as an app for using AI inside Google Sheets and says it reached $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue. He runs his product business alone from Bangalore and has built a portfolio of small tools, including extensions and Google Workspace add-ons. His broader portfolio has generated more than $1 million in cumulative revenue over six years, but that aggregate belongs to the collection of products, not to SheetAI alone. The useful strategic point is distribution through an existing platform: users already have their data and habits in Sheets, so the add-on can solve a focused task in context. Product-specific YouTube content also appears in the growth story. SheetAI got its own YouTube channel at sheetai.app, with close to 2,000 subscribers and tutorials at 17,000, 10,000 and 7,000 views, and Sanskar credits that content for taking it past $2,000 MRR.
For SheetAI, product-specific YouTube demonstrations are the channel to build around: show a spreadsheet task from raw input to useful output, then link directly to the add-on.
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Data credibility: Sanskar Tiwari stated that SheetAI reached $2,000 MRR. No SheetAI-specific dashboard or third-party records are cited, so this is founder-reported and unaudited. The wider portfolio's $1M cumulative revenue over six years is not attributed to SheetAI alone.
For a Google Sheets AI add-on, make the first dollar arrive when a user gets a completed result from a workbook task they already need to do. Offer a focused paid workflow, explain the data sent for processing, and show the output before the user commits to repeated use.
SheetAI has a plausible content loop: a user searches for help with a spreadsheet task, watches a focused demonstration, installs the add-on, and then shares the workflow with a teammate. The creator says product-specific YouTube content helped SheetAI grow to more than $2,000 MRR.
A solo Google Sheets add-on can look quiet for a long time because installs, useful output, and paid conversion happen at different points.
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