$6K/month teaching Microsoft Excel | Starter Story

The episode opens with a striking observation: a single-page website generating $6,000 a month by teaching people how to use Excel. The host immediately tests the product himself, clicking "Get started" and finding himself in a live Excel course without having to log in or create an account. "I haven't logged in, I haven't done anything, but now it's just saying format a number as a currency by holding control shift and hitting the dollar sign. I don't know how to use Excel, but I just learned."

The mechanics of a lean, working business

The business in question is Excel Exercises, and its structure is almost absurdly simple. It's a single landing page with a course that puts users directly into Excel practice exercises. No signup gate, no email capture, no friction. The host notes that "this could be all built with AI tools" — the technical barrier to entry is essentially zero.