Apps & digital

Wall Math.

A web app for house painters to measure rooms, price jobs and send quotes.

The sentence that was typed

Wall Math is a SaaS web app I built as a house painter in Columbus, Ohio: painters measure the rooms, price the job and send a quote in the browser, $19 a month solo or $49 for a crew of up to 5, with a 14-day free trial.

221 characters Start from this sentence

The result.

This is the full homepage WPMaven built, top to bottom. Scroll inside the frame, or press Play scroll.

The homepage

Wall Math
The full Wall Math homepage: a wood-panel site in yellow and black with a room estimator, instant quoting features, crew tools and a plan card.

Some images on this site were generated with AI.

How it was built, step by step.

Every screenshot below comes from the real build. Click one to see it larger.

  1. Describe the business

    Write the business in a sentence or two, the way you would tell a friend. This one is 221 characters, and that is the whole brief.

    The Describe step for Wall Math: the sentence in the WPMaven create box, with a blank site preview taking shape beside it. (opens a larger view)

  2. WPMaven reads it back

    Before it builds anything, WPMaven reads the sentence back as a plan: the business, the team, the pages, the plugins (the add-ons the site runs on) and the first products. It kept the name Wall Math, planned 8 pages (including Features and Pricing) and added a membership plugin. You can tweak anything before the build starts.

    The first read-back card for Wall Math: the business name, a one-line summary, its type, industry and location, and a Confirm details button.The business (opens a larger view)The full read-back for Wall Math: the business, the team, the pages, the plugins and the first products, each ready to confirm or edit.The whole plan (opens a larger view)

  3. Check the plans

    WPMaven proposes an opening lineup with a price for each item in the store's currency. Every item can be ticked off, renamed or repriced before the build. Here the lineup was set to two monthly plans instead of products: one for a solo painter and one for a crew.

    The pictures on this screen are stand-ins, the same one for every plan.

    The products step for Wall Math: the first lineup with photos, editable names and prices, and a Confirm products button. (opens a larger view)

  4. A first-year estimate

    WPMaven drafts an estimate from your sentence: how many orders or bookings the first month might bring, how that could grow over a year, the usual size of one and the running costs. The chart carries on to two years. It is an estimate to help you plan, based on assumptions you can change. Once you start selling, your real numbers show next to it on your Home.

    The first-year estimate for Wall Math: a chart, a monthly table and the assumptions behind them, which can be edited. The screen says it is an estimate to help you plan. (opens a larger view)

  5. Pick a style

    WPMaven explores four style directions and applies each one to the preview on the left as you try it. Hover one to try it on, click to choose it. Here WPMaven's recommended direction, Jobsite Utility, was picked.

    The chosen direction, Jobsite Utility, previewed on the Wall Math site on the left, next to the other directions. (opens a larger view)

  6. The team builds it

    The team builds the site while you watch: the homepage first, then every page, a review of each page and the move into WordPress. The progress card on the right names the current phase.

    The build starting for Wall Math: a progress card on the right and the chosen style already showing in the preview on the left.Starting (opens a larger view)The build under way for Wall Math: the progress card names the current phase while the site fills in on the left.Under way (opens a larger view)

  7. Ready to launch

    When the build ends you get the live preview, a list of what the team did, a drafted launch post and a first week of marketing tasks. The launch post and the marketing tasks are drafts: they go out only after you sign up.

    The Ready to launch screen for Wall Math: the finished site on the left, and on the right a list of what the team did, a drafted launch post and a first week of marketing tasks. (opens a larger view)

Watch it get built.

A timelapse of the real build recording, sped up. It has no sound.

In the video: the sentence is typed, WPMaven reads it back, the estimate is drafted, a style is picked, the site takes shape while the team builds it, and the Ready to launch screen appears.

Now build yours.

Describe your own business in a sentence and the team builds it while you watch. Free to build, no card to start.

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The box opens with this sentence filled in. Change it to describe your own business.