A few nights ago I typed an address into a browser, entered a password, and the thing I've been building loaded up and let me in. That probably doesn't sound like much. To me it was the whole game.

Last post I said I was building this to solve my own problem: tools wandering off, the count nobody has time for. Since then it's mostly been code on my machine. Real, but private. The kind of "done" only I could see. This is the post where that changes: the web dashboard is deployed and live on its own address, with real accounts and real logins. You can sign in, and it actually runs.

The web side is the manager's view, the desktop companion to the phone. It's where you'd sit down at a real screen and see your inventory across every location, build a pull list for tomorrow's job, and set up who on the crew can see and do what. It's the big-picture, get-organized surface. The day-to-day logging out in the field lives on the phone, where it belongs.

Here's the honest part about "live," because it's less glamorous than it sounds. Most of getting here wasn't some triumphant feature. It was the plumbing. Pointing a domain at the right place and waiting for it to take. Making sure a password actually creates an account, and that the next person's login doesn't wander into somebody else's data. Fixing the small, boring stuff you only find once it's really running and not just running for you. None of that shows up in a screenshot. All of it is the difference between "it works on my laptop" and "a crew could log into this."

So I want to be straight about where this is. Live is not finished. This is the moment it works, not the moment it's proven. There's no crew signed in yet; it's early, ahead of any real beta, and there's more polishing and real-world testing to do before I'd put it in front of a working job site and stand behind it. What changed is that it's finally a real thing someone could log into, instead of a promise. That's the milestone. I'm not going to dress it up as more than that.

The phone app, the part where your camera helps you log a tool, is still coming, and it's in line for app-store review. I'm not going to put a date on it, because I've watched too many people do that and eat their words. When it's real and I can hand it to someone, I'll write about it here. Not before.

But the shape of the thing is here now. A phone in the field, a dashboard on the desk, and an address you can actually reach. For a while this was just an idea I kept describing to people. Now it's something I can open. Next comes the part I've been building toward the whole time: putting it in front of real crews. More soon.

Thomas K.