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Old Apr 2, 2026 | 09:55 AM
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I Built a free app to track mods, maintenance, and costs on my F-350 — works for any rig

I've been documenting my '79 F-350 4x4 build and got frustrated with the lack of a good tool for it. Everything out there is either a generic car app or a $200/month shop management system.

So I built Dynamite Overlanding Buildsheet Pro, DOBS — a free build tracker for off-road rigs. Tracks your mods, maintenance schedule, costs, photos, and trails in one place. It auto-calculates when services are due and tells you when something's overdue. Free tier handles one vehicle with 10 mods and 15 services. Pro is $30/year for unlimited everything plus trip planning, GPX trail logs, cost breakdowns, and PDF exports.

Web app, works on phone, works offline.

Still building it out and looking for feedback from people who actually use their trucks hard.

Here's the link to try out the free version. https://bit.ly/BuildsheetPro

Here's what you get: Vehicle Management — Add/edit vehicles with year, make, model, nickname, mileage

Build Sheet — Track mods with category, cost, date, notes

Maintenance Logs — Log services with date, mileage, cost, intervals

Service Status — Auto-calculated OK / Due Soon / Overdue indicators

Photo Gallery — Upload photos per vehicle (15 total limit)

VIN Auto-Decode — Paste a VIN to auto-fill vehicle details (NHTSA API)

Wishlist — Track parts/mods you want to buy

Community Trails — Browse community-rated trails and tips

Data Backup — Export/import all data as JSON

PWA Suppor — Install as app, offline caching

Limits: 1 vehicle, 10 mods, 15 services, 15 photos

Let me know what you think? Thanks!
 

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Promoting something as "free", while half of the original post (prior to edit) was devoted toward describing features that actually cost $30, could potentially be construed as "false" advertising.

No matter how interpreted, ANY sort advertising on FTE tech forums, even by paying FTE Sponsors, much less non-vendors, is not permitted per FTE Site Guideline #4... which is an automatically agreed upon Guideline with membership that has remained in effect since prior to 2013.

It is a kind gesture to give fellow FTE members something of interest related to Ford trucks for free. It is NOT ok to advertise or promote a business, website, or app... freely....on the bandwidth devoted to regular members for automotive related discussions.

You are instead encouraged to take advantage of FTE's Marketplace, where you can list your "free" app, for free.
 
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Old Apr 3, 2026 | 12:26 PM
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I built a free app...

It has both a free version and a paid version! The free version is very usable. I believed that I was just asking for feedback on what members thought about it, and if they had any suggestions for improvement. No one has to buy anything, and I'm not selling anything, per se, just looking for feedback.
 
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