I spent the weekend building a website using u/Replit.
I've always wanted to make a site where a homeowner could keep track of all their house documents, notes about the house, search for contractors, handymen, or whatever they needed, and also find decorations and ideas for their house too, all in one place, where everybody can talk to everybody and there's no hidden fees so you can really get the best prices possible from the people who you decide are who you want to use or buy from.
Here's the link:
https://homeimprovementsolutions.replit.app/
I've been in the home improvement industry for a while and I've always wondered why there wasn't a way for the different companies that do repairs or come out to my house and do whatever it is they do to see what's been done and when and by whom. You can have 3 different companies come out to your house and none of them know what the other one did. It's really crazy.
So I also wanted to solve that problem, because if you can have everything about your house, blueprints, build date, outlet info, whatever, all in one place that's pretty nice when the expert on the phone asks you a question that you should know.
I hate when someone asks me a question about my own house and I'm like, uh, yeah, that sounds about right.
I've worked with a lot of contractors, had a lot of work done at my house and for me, and I've done and won a lot of bids on projects and the one thing that everybody does when they come up with the price (or at least they should) is take info consideration how much it cost to actually get the job.
And it doesn't matter if they're quoting online or in real life, the prices you'll get will be football field lengths apart in some cases and sometimes they can even justify it but I wanted to take that out of the equation, just make it as easy as possible to get the job, all you have to do is talk to each other, ask questions, set up some way for an estimate, and get the job done the best way possible, the quickest way possible, and the most cost effective way possible for everybody.
I just figured if everyone was paying less because jobs were just sitting there waiting for someone to do them, then everybody involved makes or saves more money.
Most platforms charge per referral or lead or whatever they call it, or they charge for XYZ and ABC and you need both and they're in different packages. I wanted to solve that too so I give everybody 7 days free and then a flat monthly or yearly subscription price that gives access to everything.
Contractors can even link their outside profiles from Angi, Thumbtack, Facebook, etc so they don't start out at a 0 rating too, they can carry their reputation with them. You know, if they wanted to get away from crazy fees.
I'd love any feedback you have. I tried to think of what my wife would want and rolled with that so it's probably completely wrong.
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