In the month that I've been here, I've been noticing a pattern in a lot of launches - strong demos, polished UI, clear outputs of "what it does."
But when I ask myself "What problem does this solve?" I sometimes have to dig for the answer. (I come by that thinking honestly - I've spent 33 years building and fixing businesses, so this is the lens I can't turn off.)
After spending years working with contractors, dealers, and sales teams in the decking industry, I've noticed something interesting:
Many companies are still creating deck and railing takeoffs using spreadsheets, hand sketches, PDFs, and manual calculations.
I've seen projects where the actual estimating process takes longer than the customer conversation itself.
When I started building DeckPlanPro, I assumed there would already be simple, industry-specific tools for this problem. Instead, most solutions I found were either:
