Hi HN, I'm Nick and I built Inspec with my partner Caitlin (she's the interior designer, I'm the developer).Inspec lets interior designers create and manage FF&E schedules - basically spec sheets listing everything that goes in a room before the furniture: flooring, paint, countertops, lighting, fixtures, etc.This process is currently exclusively done using Excel, and while this works to...
My read of the industry in terms of software is that it's split into 3 groups:
1. Interior visualisation (basically 3D renders) which largely target the what-if amateur market
2. Big, clunky and old software tools for professional interior designers working on huge projects, which works well but has that universal sort of mild dislike to strong disdain depending on the person
3. New players who want to replace the old clunky software
Seeing this, we decided not to try to overthrow the old all-powerful project management solution, but rather to replace a single process in the interior design workflow. And of course to do it very well.
I don't like most productivity/to-do-list tools because they usually require a huge time investment. Particularly for the initial setup but also day to day.I wanted to create something simple where I can hit record while I make my coffee and blabber about all the things I have to complete that day. I transcribe the audio and feed it to chatGPT to create events & tasks for you.I charge the...
Stack is: Next.js + Typescript with Styled Components on the front-end. Node.js + Express + Prisma + Typescript on the back-end + PostgreSQL.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!