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by basch 2966 days ago
ctrl+f "construction" = 0 results.

https://angel.co/construction

small construction companies are still in the stone age. plangrid and submittal exchange exist but not much else is popular.

textura is owned by oracle, and everything else is owned by trimble and autodesk.

theres a plethera of attempts at field document management, and timecards, but 0 great medium-large business size erps. procore is like half an erp without an accounting system.

there is a huge untapped thirst for something that "just works" regarding labor productivity tracking and document management.

construction is one of the places where I think an enterprise blockchain could actually apply better than a traditional database. imagine a construction project with one blockchain, and every general contractor, sub, and vendor participating. shares, payments, todo, gantt charts, drawings, the model itself. they can all access the database from whatever supported client their firm uses (think email clients all working with each other) but on the backend working on one shared distributed database. I think you could turn down the bad actor security a bit, similar to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-...

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Engineer behind REBIM here. I've spent the last one and half years developing an AEC SaaS platform that includes

* A project-based document management system that has baked-in version control.

* Issue and Task trackers.

* Soft realtime features such as notifications when models are converted, when anyone comments on an issue or task you've logged and a realtime chat system.

* A browser-based model viewer with the ability to:

* Federate multiple models from various project disciplines into one scene.

* Take screenshots of the scene, mark them up and log issues and tasks on model assets with the marked up screenshots straight away.

* Associate documents with model objects.

* Hold conversations on model objects.

* Store / review feeds from the built counterparts of modelled assets.

Video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8xrkI2ZaSm-5s_aJnnGpeA/vid...

API documentation: https://app.rebim.co/static/docs/index.html

Intro for small to medium sized design studios: https://rebim.co

Intro for enterprise customers: http://rebimenterprise.com/

We've only just started beta testing this February but you're welcome to sign up for an account at https://app.rebim.co

I can be reached on lukebrooks [at] azurelope [dot] com if you need any assistance and we would also love to hear your thoughts on REBIM if you have any suggestions for improvements!