← Work/Material Estimation SaaS

Material Estimation SaaS.

A construction-focused estimation platform that turns project geometry into detailed material and cost estimates - hierarchical projects (Floors → Rooms → Walls), per-user data isolation, and server-rendered PDF reports.

Year2026
RoleSolo build
Duration~4 months
Material Estimation SaaS - Construction estimation SaaS
01 · The problem

Construction estimators were quoting jobs from spreadsheets and gut feel. Every project meant remeasuring rooms, hand-pricing materials against an outdated rate card, and emailing PDFs that nobody could trace back to the original assumptions.

02 · What I built

Auth + per-user isolation

JWT + refresh tokens, bcrypt, rate-limited login. Full per-user data isolation with ownership validation on every read and write - nobody sees another estimator's projects.

Hierarchical estimation

Project → Floors → Rooms → Walls. Geometry-driven material engine computes quantities from dimensions, then aggregates costs up the tree to a project-wide summary.

PDFs + revisions

Server-rendered PDFs via PDFMake. Estimate revisions are tracked as snapshots so historical numbers stay frozen even when rates and templates change.

Onboarding + analytics

Demo project presets for first-run, reusable templates for repeatable structures, rate cards for localized pricing, analytics dashboard for project insights.

03 · Results
JWTsecure auth
PDFserver-rendered
100%per-user isolation
Snapshotsrevision history
04 · Stack
ReactViteTailwindNode.jsExpressMongoDBTanStack QueryPDFMake
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