YardTrade
Kitchen leak · St. Andrew
- D. Cole · 4.8J$8,500
- M. Grant · 4.6J$9,200
- R. Hall · 4.9J$11,000
Pay the trade. We take 15% from their credit.
YardTrade
People who come to the yard write a price. You pay them. They pay us from their credit.
Job Board — photograph the leak, the AC, the panel, the flat, or the empty verandah. Pick a skill. Up to three verified providers write a price. Pay them. Lead fee leaves their prepaid balance.
We never hold the job money. The trade, mechanic, or owner is paid by you.
Categories on this skinPlumber & AC · Electrician · Mobile mechanic / roadside · Event kit (chairs, gen, speakers)
Absorbed: TyreNow, YardNight kit, Sitevoice walk. Same rails: shared engine.
Phase 1 — Problem discovery
The parish already matches skills in WhatsApp. Splitting plumber, AC, mechanic, and chairs into four apps is four CACs for one habit.
WhatsApp group test
‘Who have a plumber / AC man / electrician’, the cousin tyre-man, and Thursday ‘who have chairs’.
Evidence of the gap
- The WhatsApp hack is one habit: ‘who have’ + a photo.
- Tyre-only and chair-only apps die on frequency. Categories do not.
Directories are ads. WhatsApp has no written price. Event kit is the same ‘who have’ as a plumber.
Current solutions and limits
| What people use | Strength | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Parish WhatsApp | Already matching | No price, no rating |
| Five vertical apps | Look focused | Five CACs, one provider wallet needed |
| Jobber | Scheduling | Holds money |
Technology enablers
AI
Optional whisper on a 20s walk. Category suggested, price never invented.
Blockchain
Rejected. Shared wallet is a debit ledger, not a chain.
AR / VR
Rejected.
Phase 2 — Expert lenses
Einstein — first principles
A skill is a category id on one matching table. A new category is not a new company.
Jobs — simplicity
Photo. Category. Three quotes. Pay them.
Csikszentmihalyi — flow
One board. One sitting.
Lennon — radical creativity
The parish remembers who finished the leak and who lent the chairs.
Phase 3 — Requirements
- App name
- YardTrade
- MAIN launch feature
- Job Board — photograph the leak, the AC, the panel, the flat, or the empty verandah. Pick a skill. Up to three verified providers write a price. Pay them. Lead fee leaves their prepaid balance.
- Unique interface
- A category strip on one three-quote board — not five apps
- Cross-device (PWA)
- Photo or pin first. Category filter. Quotes cache. OTP after the first price. WhatsApp share of the strip. Same shell as LoadYard.
- One job
- Get three named prices for this photographed skill job.
- Named payee
- the trade, mechanic, or kit owner on the quote
- Never hold a deposit for a stranger
- Never a second app for tyres or chairs
- Never ask a route-taxi driver to tap seats
Phase 4 — Monetization and viability
PrimaryPrepaid lead on accept. One wallet across every skill category.
Provider prepaid: 15% of the won cash bid. Floor J$2,000 on a yard job. Pro J$12,000/month. Household free.
Secondary
- Parish category spotlight.
- Taxi-fleet roadside retainer.
LTV: Active plumber ~8 jobs/month × J$2,000 × 9 ≈ J$144,000.
CAC: J$800–1,500 in groups they already live in. One Page, not five.
Phase 5 — Documentation package
Files on disk: concepts/slate/yardtrade/
Facebook ad · week 2
Skills for the yard. Pay them.
Photograph the leak, the AC, or the flat. Three checked people write a price. You pay them. Chairs and a generator sit on the same page. We never hold a deposit. Call us · +1 876 555 0190
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