Seven weeks after launch, we are ahead of every goal we set

Most young companies wait until they have a polished story before they say anything. We are doing the opposite. This product is being built in the open, thousands of people use it every month, and they deserve to know where it is headed.

This series will track the progress month over month: growth, the retailers we add, what we ship, what does not work, and what we decide to change. No inflated numbers and no victory laps. When a month is bad, we will write that too.

We opened the app to the public on June 25, 2026. Seven weeks later, more than 7,800 people have created an account since the project began: homeowners in the middle of a renovation, self builders, and contractors who buy materials every week.

In the last four weeks alone, Google search sent more than 22,000 clicks to our pages. For an app that did not exist a year ago, in a category where nobody was searching for our name, that is the number I am proudest of.

We have no advertising budget, no sales team, and no paid campaign running in the background. Something else is driving these numbers.

It is a product that solves a real problem in a category where the tool simply did not exist. Nobody could take a full materials list, price it across every major retailer at once, and walk away with a store by store buying plan. People were looking for that before it existed. We got there first, and word of mouth did the rest.

That is the lesson from these seven weeks: a good product in an underserved market beats good marketing in a crowded one, every time.

Buildsavr is the English face of the same product that runs as Bâtir à Rabais in French, built by the same two people, on the same catalogue. It compares the price of building materials and tells you where to buy what. Not just framing lumber and not just hardware: structure, insulation, drywall, plumbing, electrical, siding, paint and finishing.

Whether you are building a deck this weekend, putting up your own house, or running three job sites at once, you paste your list and you get your buying plan: what to buy, where, and how much you save compared to buying everything at one store.

Our goal is simple and we are not hiding it: to become the Amazon of construction. The default place to shop for everything that goes into a house, from the first shovel to the last coat of paint.

Price comparison is the front door. What we are building behind it is the place where buying materials gets simple for the buyer, and where local retailers reach customers who already have their list in hand.

Since day one I have been building this at night and on weekends, alongside a full time head of product role. That stops now.

I am leaving my job, and the six figure salary that comes with it, to work on this full time. It is not an easy call with a family to support, but the numbers from the last seven weeks leave little room for doubt: this deserves everything we have.

Alexandre keeps leading retailer partnerships and media relations. I move to product, technology and growth, full time.

The next step is funding. We are meeting investors to move faster: broader retailer coverage, a bigger catalogue, the features contractors keep asking for, and new markets.

If you invest and construction is a space you care about, write to me directly at simon@batirarabais.ca. I answer everyone.

Thank you to the 7,800 people who created an account, to everyone who writes in to flag a missing product, to the contractors who handed us their real job site lists, and to the retailers who took a meeting when we were still nobody.

See you in the next post in the series. There will be numbers, and they will not all be pretty.