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📣 documentorium

Any Tradespeople Here?


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).

Bogdan from documentorium (support@documentorium.com)


  👤 someprick Accepted Answer ✓
Tradesman here… This is very nice. Good looking .pdf's, lots of templates…

I'm trying not to be negative, because this is a very nice platform… But, who is it for? The smaller shops will do most of this by hand, even still. The larger shops will have these features integrated into a management software ecosystem.

Tradesmen will take the path of least possible resistance to their objective. Unlike the IT/IS crowd… downloading (and/or integrating into our work-flow, in the case of an online service) yet another library/program/engine is usually one of the last solutions we'll go after.

Again, this is very nice software, but… I don't see too many of us using it.

Especially whereas one of the big selling points, is the library of templates… but, a plumber is never going to need an electrician's template… I say, don't bother going after tradesmen. Pimp this out to other software vendors. I don't know that ecosystem very well, at all, but I imagine that .pdf aaS will find a wider market with them as a plug-in of sorts, than with the operative crowd.

Just my two cents. Cool stuff, though.

edit: hurrdedurr…