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Hmm strange. Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you!

Yeah the idea is to replace our customers' current data collection and report writing process with our software. Could you elaborate more on what you mean by "Nobody wants to change "how" they fit the data collection piece into the rest of their processes"?

The automation comes in at the report writing stage. Instead of coming back to the office with a stack of notes and manually entering the data into a report template, the inspector will be able to automatically generate a completed inspection form from the data collected with the mobile application.

Thanks for the suggestion regarding document management functionality, it sounds interesting. Currently users can view previous inspections of a specific structure and all inspections performed by a specific user.

Launch HN: OSIMple (YC W18) – Automating data entry for inspectors

Hi HN,We’re Amanda Chan and Mike Miller, the cofounders of OSIMple (https://www.osimple.co/). We automate data entry for inspectors by replacing stacks of paper with tablets and by generating completed inspection forms, saving them almost half of their inspection time.Through conversations with friends and professors in the civil engineering department at our university, we discovered that data...

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