My husband Tim is a Territory Manager. He spends his days driving between vendor-managed stores, writing orders on paper for his customers. For years, this was the routine: full day on the road, hotel by 6 or 7, dinner (sometimes), then 2-3 hours typing every handwritten order into individual emails for his office. SKU, quantity, SKU, quantity — night after night. Then one day it just clicked: I'm a software developer. I could probably fix this. Honestly, I wish I'd thought of it years sooner.
So I built him a scanner. Point the phone at a UPC, enter a quantity, add it to the order, send it. His 15-minute orders became 5-minute orders, and the late-night typing ended. I wasn't trying to start a company — I just wanted to fix it for one person. But then other reps saw him using it and wanted it too. Then his buyers wanted it — and I thought, if I were a buyer, what would I want this to do? Scan the entire store in one pass, orders auto-split to each vendor. So I built that. It kept evolving until, almost without my planning it, it became QuickOrder.