{"id":69825,"title":"Hammr — Rippling for the construction industry 🔨","tagline":"All-in-one platform for construction companies to manage their back-office","body":"**TLDR: Contractors use Hammr for time tracking, payroll, benefits and compliance — in one place. Our customers save up to 10 hours of busy work per week by ditching multiple systems and spreadsheets and streamlining their workflow on our platform.**\n\n\\\nHey YC! We’re Brek and Sanket, co-founders of Hammr.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69825\u0026key=user_uploads/379301/327bced9-c820-4195-a1ab-59ec82a2546f)\n\n### **🏆 Why us**\n\nBrek has built one of the largest construction media outlets and generated 500 million organic impressions via our social media accounts in 2022. Sanket was a founding engineer at Superhuman and has built software used by millions of users at MyFitnessPal. As a team, we have the unique combination of domain expertise, distribution and engineering to build this company and modernize workforce management for the construction industry.\n\n### **💡How it started**\n\nBefore YC, we were building a labor marketplace. Based on customer feedback, we pivoted, and landed our first 5 paying customers based on Figma mockups. \n\n### **🏗 How it’s going**\n\nDuring YC, we’ve built…\n\n1. **Time Tracking** — which has replaced paper time cards or generic time tracking apps for our customers\n2. **Payroll** — which has replaced generic payroll providers (QuickBooks, ADP, and Gusto)\n3. **Job Costing** — which has replaced our customers’ workflow of manually plugging project and hours data into spreadsheets\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69825\u0026key=user_uploads/379301/c72f491f-f084-484f-9ae7-1fa5eda1eb08)\n\n### \n\n### **🤬 Problem**\n\nContractors are not experts in running a business. They’re masters of their craft. They enjoy spending most of their time in the field with their crew and bidding on new projects. But today they spend 10+ hours every week in busy work just to keep the business running.\n\nThe root cause is tradition back office software is designed for a broad range of industries and contractors are tired of using point solutions with a mix of paper and spreadsheets to manage their workforce.\n\nThese point solutions include…\n\n👨🏻‍🏫 Payroll systems such as ADP or Quickbooks designed for a broad range of industries \n\n💬 Text messages for scheduling and reporting\n\n📊 Spreadsheets for job costing\n\n⏳ Generic time tracking apps\n\n### \n\n### **🔨 Solution**\n\nHammr is an all-in-one platform purpose-built for construction. We deeply understand the perspectives of field workers who build, foremen who manage the field, and business owners and admin staff who run the back-office.\n\nWe’ve combined the simplicity of consumer products into the flexibility and robustness of business software, and created a solution that’s native to how construction companies operate.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69825\u0026key=user_uploads/379301/812fbc44-844d-4319-accf-525b2e179af8)\n\n\\\nOur platform seamlessly combines…\n\n🕦 **Time Tracking**: Accurately track time and attendance for the entire workforce with compliant overtime calculations\n\n💰 **Payroll**: Calculate payroll automatically for both W2s and 1099 workers and ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations\n\n📈 **Job Costing**: Real-time fully-burdened labor cost per job helps owners make decisions to drive productivity and profitability\n\n👥 **HR Management**: Manage employee records, benefits, and compliance all in one place\n\n\\\nWe’re on a mission to help contractors spend less time on admin work, so they can focus on growing their business and investing into their biggest asset — their people.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Our Asks**\n\n📣 **Sharing**: Please share this announcement with your network and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hammr/)!\\\n👥 **Referrals**: If you know anyone in the construction industry who could benefit from Hammr, please connect us.","slug":"IAD-hammr-rippling-for-the-construction-industry","created_at":"2023-03-01T18:38:33.176Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T21:12:38.395Z","total_vote_count":322,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAD-hammr-rippling-for-the-construction-industry","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27710,"name":"Hammr","slug":"hammr","url":"https://www.hammr.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38636c8d557c876f06607c37cab2b5419c77fbb5.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["HR Tech","Payroll"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27710"}}