Built Something New

After two months of building, breaking, and rebuilding — InstantTradeQuote is live. My first SaaS.

I'm going to be honest about why I built this. I didn't have some dramatic origin story. I wanted to build something that people would actually use. Something for hardworking people who don't sit behind a desk all day but still need professional tools to run their business. Tradespeople — plumbers, electricians, builders — they deserve better than quoting off spreadsheets and scrappy PDFs at the end of a long day. So I built them something better.

I vibe coded the entire thing using Lovable and Claude. No traditional dev background. Just me, an AI, and a lot of stubbornness.

And let me be clear — vibe coding is not easy mode. The hardest part was getting the user flow right. It sounds simple until you're actually doing it. Then you're staring at a payment integration that won't talk to the database, trying to plug five different systems together and wondering why the thing that worked perfectly an hour ago is suddenly broken. You fix one thing, something else falls over. You get the flow smooth, then realise the payment logic has a hole in it. Rinse. Repeat. For two months.

But it's done. It works. And it does what it's supposed to do — lets any tradesperson create and send a professional quote in minutes, from their phone, on site, between jobs.

Is it perfect? No. But it's real, it's live, and it solves a real problem for people who actually graft for a living.

I'd love your feedback. And if you know a tradesperson who's losing work because their quotes take too long — send them my way. That's exactly who this is for.