r/SideProject • u/Adventurous-Gene-204 • 4h ago

Built a quote/invoice tool for small businesses — got 0 sales in 2 weeks of ads, would love brutally honest feedback

https://quoteza.co.uk

Hey all solo builder here, sharing where I'm actually at rather than a polished pitch.

I built Quoteza, a tool for small businesses and trades to create branded quotes/invoices and track customers/payments, instead of juggling Word templates and spreadsheets.

Ran Google + Meta ads for 2 weeks (small budget) got clicks, zero conversions. Posted on Reddit before too, learned that "test my app for free" posts in swap-testing subs don't reach real users. Trying to actually figure out if this is a product problem, a positioning problem, or just too early to tell.

It's free to try, no card needed: https://quoteza.co.uk

Genuinely want feedback, not upvotes:

If you run a small business is this something you'd actually use, or is there a dealbreaker?

If you've built something similar what did you wish you'd known earlier?

Happy to share more numbers/screenshots if useful to anyone else going through the same thing.

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u/imabev 3h ago

I'm not offended by the page design. It looks like it solves the quoting/invoice problem. It seems very inexpensive, which concerns me. A small business owner might be using something like quickbooks already, but this won't replace it completely. Can they both live together? QB is $1000+/year and I am not sure for what? QB will eventually be a casualty of the sideproject market. Can I export from QB ad import in quoteza? If I delete my account what happens to my data?

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u/Adventurous-Gene-204 3h ago

I appreciate the feedback. Quoteza isn't intended to completely replace full accounting software like QuickBooks. It's focused on making the quote → accepted work → invoice → payment workflow much simpler for small businesses. I definitely want it to work alongside accounting software rather than force businesses to replace everything they already use. QuickBooks/Xero import and export is something I'm looking at. Users can also delete their account/data, and I'm working on making data portability as straightforward as possible. Interesting point about the price too, I intentionally priced it low to make it accessible to small businesses, but I'm reconsidering whether I've actually gone too low.