i built Bidzy for the
@convex all has hackathon
i wanted to replace my roof and redo the tiles on my house, so i did what everyone does.
i emailed a bunch of contractors and asked for quotes.
one sent a pdf. one replied with three lines from his phone.
one took five days. one never replied at all
then came the part
one included delivery. one didn't. one included taking the old tiles off.
another quietly left it out. the cheapest number on paper was not the cheapest job. i only figured that out after sitting with a notepad going line by line through every quote
somewhere in the middle of that i thought, why am i doing this by hand so i built bidzy
you create a job and bidzy emails the companies for you.
they reply like they normally would. bidzy reads what comes back, adds back whatever each quote left out, and shows you what the job will actually cost.
here's what's doing the work underneath
@agentmail gives every job its own real email address.
when bidzy asks a roofer for a price, it comes from that inbox, and when he replies, the reply lands right back in it. that's the whole reason contractors don't need to sign up for anything. to them it's just an email.
to me it's the front door of the product
@firecrawl reads the quotes that come back as pdfs, even scanned ones, and pulls out the total, the line items, and what isn't included.
i also use it to look companies up on the city's licence register, so bidzy can tell me whether a contractor is actually licensed before i ever call them
@convex holds everything together. every quote, every email, every job lives there. when a reply arrives, convex processes it straight away and the comparison updates on screen with no refresh.
and every morning a scheduled function checks who hasn't replied yet and follows up on its own. no server for me to keep running, nothing for me to remember i built it for homeowners first, but it works the same for a small business or a firm that has to source contractors all the time
built solo, in eight days, for the all gas hackathon
demo below video here >
app here
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