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Inventory for powder-coating shops. Scan a box label instead of typing it, track powder by the pound, and know before a job runs short.

Role
Founder · product, engineering
Type
My product · B2B SaaS
Year
Ongoing

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Overview

Powder-coating shops run on boxes of powder that are hard to count and easy to run out of mid-job. Powder Inventory replaces the clipboard with a phone camera: scan the label, and the powder, lot and weight are filled in for you.

The challenge

“Shop-floor software has to be faster than a pen. It also had to keep every company's data strictly separate, since many shops share one app.”

What I built

  1. 01

    Label scanning uses vision AI to read manufacturer labels and match them to existing powders, with a review step before anything is saved.

  2. 02

    Stock is tracked by the pound across boxes and lots, with usage logging, job records, expiring-powder lists and low-stock alerts.

  3. 03

    Every company is its own organization, isolated by Postgres row-level security, with admin-issued join codes for new staff.

  4. 04

    A "shop floor" design (safety orange on warm stone) built for gloves and glare, shipped to iOS and Android with Capacitor.

Built with

  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • Postgres RLS
  • Claude vision
  • Capacitor
  • Stripe
  • Label scanning
  • Track by the pound
  • Low-stock alerts
  • Multi-tenant
  • Native apps

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