Feedback on "The Firewood App"

I have been working for the past year on "The Firewood App" and it is close to the point where I would like to get a few people invited to check it out. I figured a few of you may be interested.

The app is pretty much a full platform built from the ground up for firewood sellers. I wanted to provide everything sellers need (online) for their firewood business. It is packed and comes as a full SaaS (Software as a service) package.

It has an admin section for the firewood seller to change settings, add woods, edit and add products, adjust branding and much more. It also has a client section which is for the sellers clients who make an account such as during purchasing or to take advantage of referral codes, invite system, etc.

Here is a somewhat complete feature list, as part of this I have greatly improved my firewood calculator it will ship with near 500 wood types and a moisture slider which was tricky but I think worth it! So a quick list of stuff so far in the app.

Client Features
- Facebook integration (create account and or login using your facebook)
- Point reward system - You can send invites to friends from your dashboard, when one of your codes is used you gain points which can be used to by wood, swag, etc.
- Reserve Firewood - You can reserve firewood from the seller, requires a small reservation fee (configurable by the seller).
- Firewood Calculator - Easily calculate your firewoods heat value (BTU) and weights. These are dynamic and change based on moisture content chosen as well as stove efficiency (BTU). Supports mixed wood types (up to 4). Get a comparison on your woods heat energy VS diesel, electric, heating oil, natural gas, and propane. If you want to enter a cost for any of the alternative heat sources you can, and get a dollar comparison. Save your favorite "calculations".
- Firewood Tracker - Enter how much wood you burn over time, it can be daily, weekly, monthly, as you burn through the season. The system will show you visually how much you burned over the years and even match it up against weather events during the burning season. As your burn history gets longer you can enable notifications. For example notification of a possible shortage based on previous history or notification of upcoming weather which may affect your supply. See how much you saved over the years in comparison to other heat sources.
- Chimney sweep schedule - Create a schedule and receive reminders.

Admin Section

I was going to list everything but really, it is too dang long. The app provides the firewood seller with the client section for customers (above). A website which can be flipped to invite only, members require an invite code, or flipped to public where you have a real nice one pager as well as a store which you sell your wood, allow reservations, sell swag (requires a free stripe account). In the admin dashboard you have equipment registration + tracking where you can enter equipment and its details. You can than create maintenance schedules and costs for equipment as well as repairs and attach them to equipment. All of these things you can input costs and feeds into the financials dashboard. There is also a consumables section for things like fuel, grease, chains, etc etc.

Of course you have sales and inventory tracking as well, also feeds into financials. This way you can track all costs of the business. Financials will use all of this and give you information such production cost per cord, current gross / net for the year and more. Really a full Operational ledger, every financial event (reservation deposits, refunds, repair costs, consumable purchases) feeds a running ledger for reconciliation.

There is an internal chat system for easy communications between the seller and his customers as well. Offline mode is planned as is hands off mode where you can simply press a button and say what you want done, example "Add two cords of dry hickory to inventory".

There is more but a bit tired of typing... If anybody is interested in checking it out and giving some feedback that would be awesome. I figure its about 1-2 weeks from that time if all goes smooth.

 

Might you be wise in the ways of website coding? I think I might know of a site that could use that skill set.

 

I am fairly handy that way, feel free to shoot me a dm.

 

Calling Scotty Overkill

 

FWIW site is working really good at the moment

 

Not on this end.

 

The site seems to have short lived bursts of energy sometimes lately.

 

followed by long bursts of “just not that interested in you at the moment”.

 

Sorry to have hijacked your thread. Wasn't my intention.

Your new app sounds interesting. I'm sure FHC'ers that sell, will chime in on your new app. Best of luck with it.

 

No worries. There will be a version for non sellers as well which will have the client features listed on my OP which everybody is free to use, it will be called simply "Firewood Tracker". If there are any features you guys would like to see added to that let me know and I will see what I can do. That fee version will have some occasional giveaways of firewood related gear and swag as well.

Backwoods Savage Sounds good, and thank you!

 

So if I read it right, I would be able to track my firewood use daily, and include high/low temps for the day?
I always thought it would be nice to be able to make a chart that my family could use to load the furnace for the day, based on the forecast.
I suppose that gets complicated though with wind speed, cloudy/sunny out, etc...

 

Yes, that is part of it. You can even have a look ahead 3-4 days and get an estimate on how much wood you will need for that period with a per day breakdown, the more burn history you have logged the better it should get. You could even set a time in the morning for it to check the weather and generate a daily estimate for wood so its ready to read with the morning coffee.

 

Wow, that's great. Sounds intriguing.
I might like to check it out.

 

i'm interested.

 

It sounds like a bit more than I need for my small operation but I'm definitely interested in learning more.

 

Made some progress on a users burn history, there is an option if you want to generate a public shareable version of your burn history. Here is the one from my test account:

Wood-heating season

 

Yep, that is available in your account settings.