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Consider on your roadmap a white label option for companies that might want to offer this service to customers (home insurers, primarily, although I'm sure there are other use cases). Longer sales cycle, but more recurring revenue, more sticky, less price sensitive. Charge enough to make it worth your time, but not so much that a non-tech/biz person would try to gather resources together to build it in house.
I've been using a simple Google Sheet to track my personal inventory for a while now, and have basically all of my rarely-used possessions indexed. The biggest benefit is that I need to put way less effort into having a "sensible" organization scheme, since I can just throw something into "Tub D" and not worry about being able to find it later. The one key tip I'd recommend is setting up your system to resolve nested…
Looks interesting, too bad it's SaaS only? Kudos on the no ads bit though. If you're looking for something that can be self hosted, checkout snipe-it: https://snipeitapp.com/ For a more all-in-one household data solution that can also be self hosted, checkout Homechart: https://homechart.app . I would be interested in working with you (contact info is in my profile).
One interesting use case to me would be cataloguing features of an item you own. When you are dealing with insurance, they will reimburse you for a product of like kind and quality. For example, if you have an older consumer stand mixer that uses metal gearing instead of plastic gears (like lots of modern consumer stand mixers), then they might be forced to give you a check to buy a commercial stand mixer that does h…
This looks quite nice and I do like the 'simplicity' of the interface.
One of the issues I've come across is the different uses people may have for this. A home inventory could be a 'simple' list of objects to one person, but to another they might want to have a number of bits of metadata for the item. For instance, a TV might have a number of HDMI ports, has a resolution etc. It might be worth looking at ways to add custom fields to items, either from a template or manually for each item.
I'd also suggest looking at how you can expose a log of who looked at what, when. Including on the database side of things. As someone else pointed out this is a gold mine of information for anyone nefarious, or an advertiser.
One thing I worked on for my project (which I'm not sure i'll ever get round to finishing) was a way to have a label that matched up with an entry on the site. QR Codes are 'ugly' but can work quite well for this. A short domain + a non base10 number for ID and you're off to the races.
A potential way to monetise this might be to work with insurers, I dont know much about the insurance market, but I'd assume they'd love to be able to put actual values and the like on someones household goods. Perhaps theres an avenue that insurers offset, or indeed pay outright, for users that meet certain criteria. Theres some prescience set for this in the UK with LeakBot, a number of insurers will offer customers this for free, as they are able to get information about a leak from that system. I'm not sure if it's shared with the insurer or not, but its something to explore as a possible revenue stream.
For me, this is the type of information I want to export to multiple storage places for backup, and keep a printed copy in my fire safe. Not just in a SaaS. I'm perfectly fine paying for a SaaS service (if reasonably priced, no more than $5/mo for an individual), but I need these export options or I'd never sign up. Holding my data hostage is a non-starter.
Consider on your roadmap a white label option for companies that might want to offer this service to customers (home insurers, primarily, although I'm sure there are other use cases). Longer sales cycle, but more recurring revenue, more sticky, less price sensitive. Charge enough to make it worth your time, but not so much that a non-tech/biz person would try to gather resources together to build it in house.
Looks really interesting! It'd be awesome if I could import data via CSV or connection to other sites. I know it's a bit of an edge case but as an example, I'm a vinyl nerd and have my collection catalogued on Discogs. It'd be great to be able to pull that data in here to keep everything centralized so it's easy to access in the event of an insurance claim or the like.