Why I'm building AssetJay

I used to run a smart home company with about 25 people. We had laptops, screens, hundreds of IoT devices, and essentially no idea what we owned. We'd order duplicates because nobody knew what we had. We had multiple spare laptops sitting in a cupboard at any time because we'd forget or had no idea how old they were. When people left, the big stuff came back, but the occasional chargers, mice, keyboards probably just walked out the door. I had no idea :).

I tried creating spreadsheet several times, but I couldn't make it last. Too boring to maintain when there were a bunch more pressing things to deal with, especially when people needed the occasional devices for test.

A friend of mine tracked everything for his company in an extensive Google Sheet where he logged every device. It worked for him because he loves to create systems, but it falls down if everything doesn't go through him.

When I was exploring ideas to build, I eventually came to this. Every company from a handful of employees up has this problem, but the tools out there are built for IT departments with dedicated staff and enterprise budgets. A 25-person company doesn't need a bunch of fancy systems.

So I built AssetJay. Equipment management for teams that don't have an IT department. The person doing the tracking is usually a founder, an office manager, or someone in ops (this is often the same person in smaller companies). Forward a receipt or snap a photo and it gets logged automatically. You can see who has what, get reminded before warranties expire, and when someone leaves, everything assigned to them is in one place.

Free up to 25 assets. I'm building it for the kind of team I used to run.