Instant quote widget for pressure washers

The idea

Pressure washing is a huge solo-operator trade where the first credible quote usually wins the job. Homeowners fire off three inquiry forms and hire whoever answers; an operator out on a wand all day answers at 7pm and loses. An instant ballpark on the operator’s own site flips that: the homeowner gets a number in 30 seconds and the operator gets a lead with surfaces, sizes, and contact details already captured.

ResponsiBid proved this exact behaviour is worth paying for, but at $150+/mo it’s priced for established multi-crew outfits. The wedge is the same mechanic at solo-operator money: a pricing table the operator controls, a widget that does the maths, and nothing else.

Who pays

The buyer is the one-truck pressure washing operator, of which there are tens of thousands with basic websites and no quoting tool. $29/mo is an easy sell when one closed driveway job is $200+. Distribution: pressure washing Facebook groups and subreddits are unusually active and tool-obsessed, and the widget’s “powered by” footer on every customer site compounds.

MVP scope

• Operator pricing table: per-sqft rates, multipliers, add-ons, minimums
• Embeddable widget plus a hosted quote page fallback
• Size presets so homeowners never have to measure
• Price-range reveal gated on contact details, creating a lead
• Leads dashboard with status tracking and instant email alerts
• Skip for v1: satellite roof or lot measurement, online booking and scheduling, payment collection from homeowners, proposals and contracts, review requests

Build SplashQuote, an embeddable instant-quote widget for pressure washing companies. Stack: Next.js App Router, Supabase (Postgres, magic-link auth), Stripe for subscription billing.

Core flow: the operator signs up and fills in a pricing table: per-square-foot rates for driveway, patio, deck, and siding, per-storey multipliers, add-ons like gutter cleaning at a flat rate, and a job minimum. The app generates a script-tag embed and a hosted fallback page. On the homeowner side the widget walks through: pick surfaces, choose rough size from labelled presets (for example 2-car driveway, roughly 600 sq ft) or enter square footage, pick house height, add extras. It shows a price range (calculated price plus or minus 15 percent), then requires name, phone, email, and address to reveal the exact-range breakdown and request booking. Leads hit the operator dashboard and fire an instant email and a lead-alert notification.

Pages: operator dashboard with leads list and status (new, contacted, won, lost), pricing table editor with live quote preview, embed instructions page, widget itself, billing.

Implementation details: render the widget in an iframe sized via postMessage so host-site CSS can't break it; store the full quote breakdown on every lead so the operator sees exactly what the customer configured.

Pricing: $29/mo flat via Stripe Checkout, 14-day trial.