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Congratulations. I think this is a neat little service. I could certainly see a market outside the domestic one, too. I've worked for small businesses and public sector organisations where maintaining an inventory of office equipment was necessary not just for insurance, but also for funding and auditing purposes.

Best of luck.

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I'm debating whether I should focus more on businesses. At my current job, we're in the middle of inventorying everything from IT to furniture. We're using spreadsheets of all things but I can't push my product since it would be a conflict of interest.

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Updating a spreadsheet with quantities of desk lamps and keyboards sounds painfully familiar.

I would target businesses. Here's something to consider. With a home user, you first have to convince the potential customer of the benefits of keeping an inventory. Then you have to persuade them to use your service over a competing one, or a spreadsheet, or pen and paper. Then you have to convince them to pay you for your service, presumably, at some point in the future.

Keeping an inventory is already an established practice for businesses, so that first home user hurdle is cleared. You just have the remaining two: explaining why iKeepm is better than struggling with a spreadsheet (photos and reports are two features that spring to mind for me straight away) and getting people to pay. My hunch is that businesses, already persuaded of the need to keep an inventory, would be more ready to pay than home users.

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Thanks! I need to talk to some folks in finance that handle this stuff. What exactly do they look for, I assume the finance department are the ones who request such a list.