I've taken many stabs at writing this app and gave up mostly due to the math involved. Fast forward a few years, and with the current state of AI, I decided to take another shot at it and let AI handle the mathy stuff. It worked like a charm. I don't think I'm breaking any rules here - the app isn't finished, and I'm not trying to sell anything... yet. I'm just trying to gauge interest.
I'm a mostly independent installer. I measure the majority of jobs I do, and I suck at it. I can't tell you how many times I've measured a job 100 miles out of town, only for the decorator to change from 13' goods to 16', forcing me to drive back to remeasure. Area rugs are another Achilles' heel of mine. In my 45+ years of installing, I only remember screwing up one piece of wall-to-wall carpet so badly that I had to pay for it, and that was in a bathroom. However, I have eaten the cost of quite a few area rugs. They can be tricky to measure when the decorator wants you to weave around every fireplace insert and dormer.
This is an iPad-only app at the moment. I found a phone screen just too small to be useful. I still have a ways to go with development. I need to figure out how to handle staircases, add support for multiple floors, enable printing capabilities for everything from a single room to an entire job, and I have a few other ideas for the future.
I'm primarily developing this for my own use, but would anyone else find it useful? I'm biased, of course, but I'm already loving it. Your average installer working for a shop won't get much use out of it, but salespeople, decorators, or independent installers should find it valuable. This is the kind of app that I would probably buy an iPad for if I didn't already own one.
I'm not planning on getting rich from this, but I do want to get something on the App Store just to get over that hurdle, and I'm hoping it will lead to many more apps and maybe some passive income. I'm getting too old for this working-for-a-living stuff.
Floored
I'm a mostly independent installer. I measure the majority of jobs I do, and I suck at it. I can't tell you how many times I've measured a job 100 miles out of town, only for the decorator to change from 13' goods to 16', forcing me to drive back to remeasure. Area rugs are another Achilles' heel of mine. In my 45+ years of installing, I only remember screwing up one piece of wall-to-wall carpet so badly that I had to pay for it, and that was in a bathroom. However, I have eaten the cost of quite a few area rugs. They can be tricky to measure when the decorator wants you to weave around every fireplace insert and dormer.
This is an iPad-only app at the moment. I found a phone screen just too small to be useful. I still have a ways to go with development. I need to figure out how to handle staircases, add support for multiple floors, enable printing capabilities for everything from a single room to an entire job, and I have a few other ideas for the future.
I'm primarily developing this for my own use, but would anyone else find it useful? I'm biased, of course, but I'm already loving it. Your average installer working for a shop won't get much use out of it, but salespeople, decorators, or independent installers should find it valuable. This is the kind of app that I would probably buy an iPad for if I didn't already own one.
I'm not planning on getting rich from this, but I do want to get something on the App Store just to get over that hurdle, and I'm hoping it will lead to many more apps and maybe some passive income. I'm getting too old for this working-for-a-living stuff.
Floored
