Visual drag-and-drop boards for construction tasks and crew coordination.
Small construction business owners lose time and money due to inefficient project scheduling and crew management causing constant delays and productivity losses.
BuildBoard offers intuitive Kanban/Gantt boards customized for construction workflows, with task dependencies and crew tagging. Teams collaborate in real-time across web/mobile, logging progress visually. Dependency chains auto-adjust schedules, minimizing cascade delays.
Small construction business owners managing 5-50 person crews on residential or commercial projects
Construction-tailored visual boards with dependency logic, simpler than full PM tools for 5-50 crews.
friendly
Kanban or Gantt views for tasks.
Link tasks to auto-sequence.
@mention crew for assignments.
Move cards, add notes/photos.
Live sync across devices.
Gantt PDF for clients.
Templates for common jobs.
In-board discussions.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| name | text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| type | text | No |
| owner_id | uuid | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| board_id | uuid | No |
| title | text | No |
| status | text | No |
| assigned_users | uuid[] | Yes |
| depends_on | uuid[] | Yes |
Relationships:
/api/boardsCreate board
/api/tasks/moveUpdate task status/position
/api/boards/:idFetch board with tasks
/api/tasks/assignAssign crew to task
/api/dependenciesSet task deps
5 tasks/board
15 active boards
None
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 120 | 3% | $115 | $1,380 |
| Month 6 | 900 | 7% | $2,016 | $24,192 |
Drag-drop tasks, assign crews, and watch dependencies flow – simple for small teams.
Share Loom demo in r/HomeImprovement and construction subreddits; email list from 'construction business owners' Google searches; partner with local supply stores for referrals.
Enterprise scale
Too complex/pricey for small
Visual simplicity at $32
Customizable boards
Not construction-tuned
Built-in deps for trades
Speed to MVP and user-generated templates creating stickiness.
No-code visual tools popular; construction digitizing post-pandemic.
Preference for spreadsheets
Import/export Excel
Realtime sync bugs
Supabase realtime
Success: 8/10 prefer over Trello
Success: 10% conv
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