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In my industry I've seen a glaring need for a specific type of software solution. Most of the response is "we just figure it out in excel, it's not great."
I don't even know where to start. I wouldn't want to pay a developer to come up with something when I don't even know what the correct solution should be.
So, two points:
1) Usually, the people telling you "learn to code" are amiss and just parroting what they hear in other threads, because it's usually very difficult to code up an MVP when you're not a coder and need to work with specific datasets, needs, and actions in enterprise business software environments BUT... "We just figure it out in excel" should be your alarm bells to wake up and realize you can do something; I'm guessing it's some operation with numbers or sets of data/financial information over time that needs maybe a handful of mathematical operations done to it (which is comparatively EASY).
2) You say you wouldn't want to pay a dev because YOU don't know what the correct solution should be... but why not reach out to devs and see what THEY think, and explain the issue anyway? Even if it's just a friend, they could probably think through the process and put you on the right track, especially if it's just number crunching in excel.
I can't discuss what it is and how I've seen it used, but a job I used to work for essentially paid a contractor to build out a similar calculator app to offload about 70% of their calculations off excel for standardization sake.
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