The TradeYoke build timeline: every part of the build, in order
One page listing every part of Building TradeYoke in date order, from the idea in 2019 and the start in January 2024 to where the platform stands in October 2026.
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How TradeYoke was built, month by month from January 2024: customers and jobs, invoicing, quoting, surveys, inspections, maps and live monitoring.
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From passwords to passkeys: how sign-in and trust grew with TradeYoke
A system that holds a business's customers and invoices has to be hard to break into. Here is how TradeYoke's sign-in grew, and what is live in the web browser today.
From a 2019 idea to today: the whole TradeYoke journey
An idea from helping manage window cleaning rounds around 2019, development from the start of 2024, and where it has got to in October 2026. The whole journey in one place.
What building for tradespeople has taught us: seven lessons from the build
Looking back from the start of 2024 to now, seven ideas kept proving themselves. They apply to running a trade business as much as to building software.
How we thought about pricing TradeYoke: four plans, one price per business
Pricing is part of the product. We looked back at the build to decide what belongs on each plan: a free start, a working core, getting paid, and the business as a whole.
April 2026: one core, many trades
With window cleaning solid, April 2026 was about whether the core could carry other trades. Each trade is a module on the same core: its own terms, forms and colour.
March 2026: Plan my day, decide, order, go
March 2026 turned the diary into a morning routine. Plan my day shows what is overdue and what is booked, lets you decide, puts the day in order, and sends it to your phone.
February 2026: working with no signal, offline-first in practice
February 2026 put the offline-first idea from 2024 to work: the round on the device, changes queued, and a clear rule for when two people edit the same thing.
January 2026: trails and replay, and what a day's route can tell you
January 2026 added trails to the live map and a way to replay a device's day. What a route can settle, and why it is worth having.
December 2025: consent first, and tracking a team fairly
December 2025 was about the part of live monitoring that matters most: nobody is tracked without being told first, and everyone can switch sharing off on their own device.
November 2025: where is everybody? Live monitoring begins
Every business with more than one van asks the same question sooner or later. November 2025 began live monitoring: the team on one map, with the phone app as the tracker.
October 2025: one set of maps, built on Google Maps
By October 2025 TradeYoke needed maps in many places. We built one shared set on Google Maps, so a customer, a job and the whole team all use the same map.