Show HN: Inspec – Specification scheduling software for interior designers
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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 some degree, it comes with a lot of manual work and clunkiness. When Caitlin started working remotely, I watched her deal with these issues daily. So I spent the past 9 months building a better solution.
Key Features:
- Realtime collaboration
- Revision control (versioning)
- Professional PDF exports
- QR codes to print out on-site for contractors, builders etc. to always have the latest version
- Completely customisable fields and a familiar workflow to Excel to keep learning curve small
When we first started building this we thought it was completely unique, but turns out there are 2 competitors. I think our positioning is quite different though as we seek to only replace this document creation, rather than overhaul the entire project management and try to be a complete solution. So that’s helped to guide our focus, but also validated that interior designers are looking to modernise their software.
Tech stack:
I used my SaaS boilerplate which is just a modified T3 stack template with everything set up just how I like it. So Next.js with the pages router, TS, Trpc, Prisma + PostgreSQL, and TailwindCSS. I’ve also got Pusher for realtime collaboration, Redis and BullMQ for keeping a seperate background worker for PDF and web scraping jobs.
I can’t imagine many interior designers are on HN, but figured I would share this for anyone who wants to take a look :) feedback always welcome! The landing page is at https://inspec.design
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