Who built this, and why it isn't a subscription.
I still work twelve-hour shifts. I built this in the hours around them.
Not because I found a gap in a market. Because I know what the evenings look like for people who work with their hands, and I got tired of watching it.
The job finishes at six. Then there's the invoicing. Then the receipts in the truck's centre console that have to become something an accountant will accept. Then working out what to put aside for tax, badly, and hoping. It's ten o'clock before any of it's done and the kids went up at eight.
And it compounds. The longer a job takes to write up, the more it costs you, and the more it sits on your chest at two in the morning. Time out, money out, worry up. Every tradesperson I know is running that equation and losing.
So the whole point of this is to run it backwards. Finish the paperwork at the kerb instead of the kitchen table. Have the tax number already worked out instead of guessing in April. Get the evening back — not as a slogan, as an actual Tuesday where dinner happens with everyone at the table and nobody's on their phone.
That's it. That's the entire reason.
Because subscriptions are how the industry takes the thing you rely on and rents it back to you forever. Miss a month and your customer list, your invoices and your job history stop being available to you — records of work you did.
Buy this once and it's yours. If I disappear tomorrow, it keeps running. Export everything to a spreadsheet whenever you like — I'm not holding your records hostage, and I never will be, because I've already been paid.
It also keeps me honest. I can't coast on a monthly bill that renews whether or not the software got better. The only reason anyone buys the next thing I build is if this one was worth the money.
Right now it's just me. Not as a philosophy — as a fact about today. I'm building this around twelve-hour shifts because that's the situation, not because I think one person is the right size for it forever.
The plan is to grow. If enough people buy this, I leave the shifts and do it full time, and after that I bring people in — someone to answer support properly, someone to help build the trade layers faster than I can alone. There are people already willing to come.
What won't change is the part that matters. Buy once, own it. No feature locked behind a bigger plan. A real person reading the messages. Those aren't temporary constraints of being small — they're the reasons this exists, and they survive getting bigger.
Support comes from me directly at the moment — that's a feature and a limit at the same time. I read every message that comes through the app, and I'll tell you when something's a long way off rather than string you along. As this grows I'd rather add people than add an autoresponder.
Most of the trade layers were built by reading the standards rather than by doing the job, and the ones that were say so inside the app. If I've got a word wrong for your trade, tell me and I'll fix it for everybody, not just for you.
And there are things this doesn't do — no customer booking portal, no GPS tracking, no marketing automation, no payroll. If one of those is what you need, buy something else. I'd rather lose the sale than take your money for the wrong tool.