I built a document engine for trades and am looking for feedback. I'm happy to give a longer trial and understand better how you are creating estimates/quotes/contracts for your customers. Take a look: documentorium.com - free to use without an account, and get extra features with an account(prefill data, history and more in the future).
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to respond to each part.
- the ones who do this by hand - they need to keep track of individual files etc, fill them manually each time - i try to solve it for them.
- the larger shops - i am not targeting them and i don't think i compete with bigger platforms here, that's where my price comes into play - cheaper than anything else, without the extra features - it's a clear tool, usable anywhere.
When i decided to build something for tradespeople, i validated this in another market(another country, but a subset of these trades) where "people wanted to create PDFs for their services, and send it to customers". And it worked, it's somewhat successful (hundreds of paying users, almost all renewed their yearly, price is too small to matter as a yearly cost).
I think "no bullshit" tools for this market(0-5 employees) are missing, or are expesive/monthly/per user etc. I think they are wrong.
I also think that the selling point is not the big library - once you're in, you will have the option to only see stuff you actually use, but the clarity and ease of use(lessons learned from the other market) + the output that you care about, FAST.