Concrete Calculator - Weekend hack!
Hey, Indie Hackers!
I recently had a bit of downtime and worked on a small side project: https://concretecalculator.io and would love to get your thoughts. This is my first "side-project". I typically focused on larger problems and just in-general involves more commitment from my end.
As you the URL suggest, it's a simple Concrete Calculator to calculate the volume, weight, and the number of bags of concrete you need per project.
Thank you Indie Hackers, super inspiration platform, would love to get a few thoughts on what you think on my first hack.
The project is a simple HTML static site and hosted on Netlify.
Super Thanks!
Robert!!! Where were you last weekend?! I needed this exact site. I'm building a fort for my kids and bought only one 60 lb. bag naively thinking it'd be fine. Nope, I had to buy 8 more. Your site is spot on. Amazing work! (One minor critique, the results are below the page fold).
I used the one with the 4x4 whole in the middle for my posts (I used a 3.5 in radius.
12x3.5x12x6 =
Another side note, I think Europeans use different weight bags (some of the how-to videos use a different sized bag).
Hi Ryan, Thank you so much for the great feedback. Going to work on the results and doing a bit of research on European sizes.
@robertyuen Awesome. What inspired you to create this side project?
My background is in Architecture and I've always had an interest in physical projects. This was just a great excuse for me to dabble in both. Thanks, Jeff!
Awesome! As someone who's also hacked together many "calculator" type sites, I love to see that others are working on cool things like this. I don't have any personal use cases for this but the site looks great. Nice work.
Thank you, Sam! Going to check out your calculators.
Also, sent you an email just to reach out and connect (sent it to the email listed on your site, friedrice.io)