HomeWorks founder Mike Andes previews the Dispatch Board, a React rebuild replacing PHP that shows crew budgets, waitlists, and weekly routes on one screen. Coming features include polygon-drawn service areas on the map and offseason tools for recurring series and chemical applications.
Hi, I'm Mike Andes, founder here at HomeWorks, and I wanted to talk about what we just released at HomeWorks and what's right around the corner. Last month we released the All Events tab, brand new page inside of HomeWorks. This week we released the brand new calendar. Next up is the new dispatch board. Now the All Events really created the foundational layer for our 90-day events refactor that we've done over the past 3 months. The calendar built on top of that infrastructure that we needed for the all events, and the dispatch board is where it all comes together for daily scheduling, routing, and capacity planning. We've heard from all of you and we know that the dispatch board is where you spend most of your time throughout the day managing crews and moving jobs. The new dispatch board is faster and it's built in the new code base of React instead of PHP. And that's really been the essence of the past 90 days. As we've done the refactor for events. The new dispatch board is designed to handle large schedules and just be super fast even though you might have lots of data. Just like the calendar, you can now see crew budget hour capacity by day, not just by week. Also on the new dispatch board, the waitlist is also going to be built in as a drawer that slides in from the right side so you can move jobs very easily from the waitlist right onto the dispatch board and You'll be able to see your daily routes across the entire week and draw areas or polygons on the map to show which parts of your service area you cover each day. The goal is super simple when it comes to Dispatch Board: see more, scroll less, and dispatch way faster. What you're seeing on the screen is just a sneak peek of what's coming. The Dispatch Board will mark the culmination of this events refactor, but this is not the end. From there, we'll be turning our attention to recurring series, treatment packages, and a lot of chemical application features that we want to build on throughout the offseason. We're excited to get the new dispatch board in everyone's hands, so stay tuned.
