I turned an Excel CRM into a SaaS style web app in about 15 minutes with Claude
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Many small businesses still run critical operations from Excel.
Normally, modernizing those systems requires developers, budget, and months of work.
I wanted to see if AI had changed that.
I uploaded an existing Excel CRM into Claude along with a simple instruction pack.
Claude generated:
A browser based interface
CRUD functionality
Responsive UI
Database schema
Integration instructions for Supabase
Then I repeated the experiment with a much larger ERP workbook.
The interesting part wasn't code generation.
It was how well Claude understood existing business logic and recreated workflows.
I think there may be a real opportunity here for consultants helping businesses migrate Excel based systems into lightweight SaaS applications.
Has anyone here built a business around this yet?
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