Use cases
Twenty things people build in a WhatsApp message
Every one of these starts the same way: you send what is already on your phone, and a page comes back at its own link. Pick the row that sounds like your week, or the kind of page you need, and open it for the three steps.
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A proposal
An estimate you send before you leave
You have just looked at the job and measured it. The next appointment is in forty minutes and the laptop is at home. The three stepsPhotograph what you looked at — the measurements, the problem, anything you would have to explain in words.
Send the photos on WhatsApp with the customer's name and the two prices you want to offer.
A link comes back. Send it to them from your own phone, and message wiwi to move a number if they push back.
Answers: “Here is what I am proposing — do you accept?”
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A price list
The price list you keep typing out
The same few questions arrive every week and you answer them from scratch every time. The three stepsWrite your prices out once, the way you would say them out loud on the phone.
Send that as one message. A link comes back with your own name in it.
When a price changes, message the same chat — say what moved and it is changed on the page. The link stays the same.
Answers: “What do you charge, when are you open?”
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A portfolio
Before and after, side by side
Your camera roll has the start and the finish of everything you did this year, and nobody has ever seen them together. The three stepsPick four jobs where you have the photo from the start and the one from the end.
Send both of each, in order, and say where each one was.
The page pairs them up. Keep the link in your phone and send it the next time somebody asks what you have done nearby.
Answers: “Show me something like what I need”
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A gallery
Options they can click through
Nobody can picture the difference between three materials from a screenshot of a catalogue. The three stepsPhotograph the options in the same light, next to each other, so the difference is the thing itself.
Send the photos and say what each one is called and what it costs.
You get a page they can click through. Send it while they are still standing there deciding.
Answers: “Here is what I am proposing — do you accept?”
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A proposal
Turn a walkthrough video into a proposal
You filmed the work. Nobody watches six minutes of video, and everything worth showing is somewhere inside it. The three stepsSend the video you already shot. It can be long and it can be rough.
Say what the job includes and what it costs. wiwi watches the video and picks the moments worth keeping.
The page comes back with those stills laid out and your price under them. Reply to whoever asked with the link.
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A gallery
Three finishes, one link
Every conversation is the same three choices and the same phone photos of somebody else's job. The three stepsPhotograph one example of each finish, in the same light, so the only difference is the finish.
Send the three, name each one, and give the price for each.
One link shows all three. It is the same link every time somebody asks, so send it and get back to work.
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A proposal
A quote that shows the room, not a spreadsheet
They need to know today what your work looks like at their size, in their space, at their budget. The three stepsFind the photos of the closest thing you have already done — same size, same kind of room.
Send them with what is included and the total for this one.
The page puts the photographs above the numbers. Send the link back inside the hour, which is the whole point.
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A portfolio
Three things you made at the same place
Somebody asks whether you can do something like this, somewhere you already know well. The three stepsPick the three you are proudest of at that place and find the photos.
Send them and say where it was, when, and roughly what each one cost to make.
Reply with the link. They are looking at your work in their room, which no mood board does.
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A form
Stop collecting answers in a group chat
A dozen people each have something to tell you, and it is arriving in four different threads. The three stepsSay what you need to know — a name, a choice, anything you have to plan around.
Ask for a page with that form on it, and send the link to whoever is organising.
Every answer arrives in your WhatsApp as it comes in, and you can ask wiwi what is on the list at any point.
Answers: “What do you charge, when are you open?”
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A proposal
Send the proposal before the next call starts
The call is over, you know exactly what you would do, and somebody else is booked in with them tomorrow. The three stepsRecord what you would say, as you would say it, and send the recording.
Add the scope in bullets, the timeline, and what it costs. Say who it is for.
The page comes back with the recording and your scope beneath it. Send it while the conversation is still warm.
Answers: “Here is what I am proposing — do you accept?”
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A calculator
The sums you do by hand on every enquiry
Half your enquiries are the same arithmetic, done again in a spreadsheet nobody else can open. The three stepsWrite down the sum the way you do it now: what varies, what each part costs, what the minimum is.
Send it in one message and ask for a page that works it out.
You get a real page that does the arithmetic. Send the link instead of doing the sum for the fourth time this week.
Answers: “What do you charge, when are you open?”
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A one-pager
Two screenshots that say more than eight pages
The proof of your work is sitting in a tab that nobody but you will ever open. The three stepsScreenshot the two things that moved, and crop out anything you cannot show.
Send them with three sentences: where it started, what you did, where it got to.
One page comes back. It is the link you send when somebody asks whether this works.
Answers: “Show me something like what I need”
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A proposal
They need it this afternoon
You have walked the place, you know what you would do with it, and the decision is being made today. The three stepsPhotograph the rooms as they are, then find photos of something you have already done that suits them.
Send both sets, say which is which, and add the dates and the total.
The page shows it now next to what it becomes. Send it from the car.
Answers: “Here is what I am proposing — do you accept?”
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A gallery
The one decision holding the job up
A colour, a finish, a size — one choice stands between you and the deposit, and it is being made from memory. The three stepsPhotograph one finished job in each option you offer. Four is plenty.
Send them, name each one, and say what it adds to the price.
They click through the four at the kitchen table. You are already at the next appointment.
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A calculator
What it costs at fifty, and at five hundred
The question is always quantity against option, and answering it properly means work you have not been paid for. The three stepsPhotograph each option you stock, and write out your quantity breaks.
Send the photos and the breaks in one message.
The page does the arithmetic in front of them. One link answers the question you get ten times a day.
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A one-pager
One job, written up as proof
Somebody is deciding whether to hand you the work, and what they want to know is what happened last time. The three stepsPick one you did well. Find the photos and whatever figures you are allowed to share.
Send them with two sentences on what you changed and what happened after.
Send the link before you leave the room, while they are still asking the question.
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A portfolio
The work that only exists as a folder
A term of work in a folder of screenshots, and somebody who is never going to open a zip file. The three stepsPick the six images that show the work, in the order somebody should meet them.
Send them with a paragraph on what it is and what you did.
You get a link. Put it on a CV, in an application, or in the message to whoever asked.
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A list you keep
The list you keep on paper and lose
Who has handed in what, who has paid, who still needs a form — currently a sheet of paper in a bag. The three stepsSay what you want to keep track of and what each entry needs — a name, a date, a yes or no.
Add to it by messaging: send a name and it goes on the list.
Ask what is on the list whenever you want, and say when one is done to tick it off.
Answers: “What do you charge, when are you open?”
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A form
Who is coming, without a group chat
Ninety people, one hall, and a thread where nobody can count anything. The three stepsSay what the event is, when it is, and what you need from each person.
Ask for a page with that form on it, and share the link wherever the group already talks.
Replies come to your WhatsApp as they arrive. Ask how many are coming and you get the number back.
Answers: “Here is what I am proposing — do you accept?”
Send it the thing you keep explaining.
The photos still sitting in the thread. The video nobody has watched. The price list you have typed out four times this month.
Open WhatsApp to start