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78% of jobs go to whoever quotes first. RateForge lets contractors, caterers, landscapers, detailers, and any service business quote in 60 seconds, send branded PDFs, and get paid faster. $19/mo annual or $599 lifetime. Join the waitlist for founder pricing.
RateForge: The estimating app for service-based businesses tired of getting hit with annual price hikes.
Three numbers that drove what we built:
78% of jobs go to whoever quotes first
$280 billion of contractor invoices sat unpaid in 2024
$10,000+/year the average 5-person crew pays Jobber once add-ons stack
Most service-business software exists to extract more revenue from owners who already feel ripped off. We built the opposite.
RateForge works for contractors, caterers, landscapers, lawn services, auto detailers, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, painting, cleaning services, pest control, mobile mechanics, photographers, junk removal, snow removal, and any service that quotes, invoices, schedules, and gets paid.
What's actually different:
| RateForge | Jobber | Buildertrend |
| Price | $19/mo annual or $599 once | $49/mo + add-ons | $99/mo + add-ons |
| Per-user fee | $5/user | $29/user | $99/user |
| Annual price hikes | Never | 3 of last 4 yrs | Doubled in 2024 |
| Lifetime option | Yes, $599 | No | No |
| Feature paywalls | None | Yes | Yes |
The service-business software market raised over $1B in VC. Result: prices went up, users got squeezed, features got paywalled.
RateForge is built without VC and priced once.
Quote in 60 seconds. Send a branded PDF. Get paid through any method (Stripe, Square, Venmo, Zelle, check, cash). Track jobs and crew on a calendar. Multi-trade, mobile offline-first.
We launch publicly later this month. Waitlist gets founder pricing locked forever.
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About RateForge on Product Hunt
“The estimating app for service businesses”
RateForge was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #24 on the daily leaderboard. 78% of jobs go to whoever quotes first. RateForge lets contractors, caterers, landscapers, detailers, and any service business quote in 60 seconds, send branded PDFs, and get paid faster. $19/mo annual or $599 lifetime. Join the waitlist for founder pricing.
RateForge was featured in Productivity (651.7k followers), SaaS (42k followers) and Business (7.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 181.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted RateForge?
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