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What could a YC-style startup do for construction?

A lot of stuff is already done.

There's total standardization of parts sizes, and has been for decades. If you order a 2x4" wall stud from your local lumber yard, it will be the same size as the ones you order tomorrow. (It won't be 2x4, but that's another story.) Doors, windows, stairways, plasterboard, switchboexes, plumbing parts, basically everything in stock at a Lowes, are all designed to standard sizes, made in factories, and delivered to the site. The CAD software has all those standards built in.

Payroll and scheduling for workers? Done.

Ordering? Done.

I imagine any startup app opportunities will be in something you'd only learn about by going out to jobs sites and swinging a hammer for a year or two. If someone came in with such an idea, it might be wise to say "let's go on a tour of the jobsites you've been on in the last year" just as a way of validating real experience.




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