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Posted 31 July 2026

Lately I have been working on some apps for my workplace, in New Zealand we have a Self Containment Certification system to certify that a vehicle has all the required amenities for clean camping (ensures no waste water is being spilled to the ground, and adequate fresh water is available for all the people camping with that vehicle)

Normally that process is a piece of paper which gets printed, filled out, scanned, returned to the certifying organisation... its all very paper oriented, and suffers from handwriting legibility issues. 

So I threw together an app which completely replicates the PDF form, and puts all the data points exactly where they'd be on a real form, and then emails that form including any attached photos directly to the certifying organisation.

Written in Flutter/Dart so it would cross platform nice and easily, so I currently have installable test versions for Android, MacOS, and Windows... and at least a dev version of it for iOS (since there's no truly easy way to install things on iPhones) 

I also wrote an app called PricePoint that's for basically creating rough quotes for people on the spot, it links with Xero to grab customer details and inventory items, and has calculators for paint, flooring, solar installs, power cable runs etc.. it's still in progress at the moment.  But will eventually also become an Android and iOS app.

The next steps are going to be paying loads of money to Google and Apple so that I can actually publish things to the app store.. so wish me luck raising the few hundred dollars to do that.