Autopit

The question

Could a workshop-management SaaS keep the customer, the car, and the service job together?

I built Autopit to do that. A service record belongs to a person and a vehicle, and the workshop needs to keep track of both.

My approach

I founded the product and built the application around the workshop’s records:

• A customer directory for the people bringing in their cars.
• Vehicle details connected to the service job.
• A service form and dashboard for working with those records.

Even the fuel level had a place on the form. It was tied to the car arriving at the workshop.

How it went

It got one client.

That was a much smaller number than I’d hoped for. I could build the application. Getting people to choose it was harder.

What I learned

Autopit didn’t go smoothly as a business, but I learned a lot about how difficult product marketing is.

Having working software gave me something to sell; it didn’t take care of the selling. Finding customers needed much more attention than the engineering alone could give it.