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WhatsApp Job Log.
An app idea for electricians and plumbers.

A service that turns WhatsApp messages about jobs into a structured job log so electricians and plumbers stop scrolling through chats for verbal requests and changes.

Wide openResearched 23 September 2026 for electricians and plumbers

What the search found

Who pays
Small trade firms
The problem
Job changes and verbal requests arrive in chat and get buried. The results show no direct quote from a tradesperson about this, so the pain is assumed, not proven.
Already out there
  • WhatsApp businessinsider.com

    Messages can be set to disappear after 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days, which makes chat a poor record of job changes.

People asking for it

No public complaints turned up. Treat demand as unproven until you run the test below.

The big assumption
Tradespeople will let a third party tool read their WhatsApp job chats.
Test it this week
Ask ten small trade firms to forward you a week of job chats and see if a manual log is useful to them.

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