RoofHound — Find every roof worth knocking on before you leave the driveway

I built a permit and storm intelligence tool for roofing contractors — got my first paying enterprise customer last week

Background: I used to work in roofing sales. After Hurricane Ian I watched contractors waste hours driving neighborhoods looking for old roofs or searching addresses one by one on county property appraiser websites trying to figure out which homes got hit and never filed a claim.

So I built RoofHound.

You draw a box on a map over any neighborhood. It pulls permit records directly from county databases and NWS storm data and color codes every roof by age on an interactive map. Old roofs + storm history + no permit filed afterward = your door knock list for the day. It also generates a PDF report per address that contractors can hand to homeowners at the door.

The "fruity pebbles" map (what my first users called it) is what sells it — contractors immediately get it when they see an entire neighborhood color coded by roof age.

I posted in one Florida roofing Facebook group three weeks ago terrified of getting banned for self promotion. That one post turned into multiple inbound leads, a YouTube channel, a redesigned landing page, and last week my first enterprise customer — a multi-rep roofing company in Orlando — signed up at $500/month.

Still expanding counties but currently covering Florida.

Happy to answer any questions about the build or the sales process.