After years in enterprise construction, one gap always bugged me. On a big job nobody starts without a critical path, committed-vs-paid tracking, and a contingency you actually protect. On a renovation, all of that discipline disappears into a spreadsheet and a group chat, and the budget quietly slips.
So I built Storypole (storypole.app), a free renovation budget and schedule tracker. The idea was to take that project-controls thinking and shrink it to fit a kitchen remodel, simple enough for a homeowner with no PM background.
A few build decisions I'd love feedback on:
Is "no account, offline, single file" a feature people care about, or do users expect cloud sync and I'm overthinking the privacy angle?
For a tool whose buyers (homeowners) aren't on IH or PH, where would you launch to reach them?
Happy to answer anything about the build. Thanks for reading.