#8 Six Teams, Six Different Forms: My First Real Project

Short summary

A hospital worker describes consolidating six inconsistent therapy-room tracking forms into a unified Google Sheet, then turning to AI for help writing formulas when self-teaching stalled. The core lesson is that you don't start by learning to build software—you start with a specific broken process and push until your existing tools run out, making AI the next logical door. The post is part of a series documenting a non-developer's journey from manual data work to shipping 20+ working tools with AI.

• •Six hospital therapy rooms used incompatible forms, forcing manual data consolidation every quarter
• •Unified Google Sheets solved collaboration but formula-writing required AI assistance
• •Key insight: real problems, not tutorials, drive non-developers toward AI tooling

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