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TradesPurple – Save and share the tradespeople you trust

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TradesPurple – Save and share the tradespeople you trust

Many people have bad experience with tradespeople marketplaces -- and prefer local recommendations from neighbours, usually asked in Facebook or WhatsApp. But this results in lots of copy and pasting, an address book full of "Max plumber" and "Jane actually good plumber", which struggle to find when you need them. TradesPurple makes it easy to save your trusted tradespeople in one place, contact them easily and share your whole list with neighbours in need. See my example page (UK) at https://tradespurple.com/maxtb and my neighbourhood page at https://tradespurple.com/HP22 The core functionality is intended to be free, and if people like it, we would build useful and valuable features like automation and managing jobs, or agents AI, or WhatsApp integration as an upgrade. Love any thoughts and feedback.

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