Need help for identifying problems in FM
Facilities / maintenance folks, I've got a hackathon coming up (one day, idea to working app) and I'd rather build something you'd genuinely use than something that demos nice and dies. So I'm going to the people who actually do the job. what's the problem worth solving?
What quietly eats your day or drives you up the wall? Like
- What do you STILL do in Excel, WhatsApp, email, or on paper because your CMMS/software can't?
- The most repetitive manual task you wish would just do itself?
- Where does time vanish — work orders, chasing vendors, chasing approvals, reporting, data entry, hunting for asset info?
- The report/number your boss asks for that's a nightmare to pull together?
- Mobile/offline in the field — does it actually work for you, or nah?
Rants, war stories, petty annoyances — all welcome, the more specific the better. If a comment nails a real pain, that might literally be the thing I build.