Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
Smiling Plug Keeps Software Human-Sized
A small software company making a UCLA course planner and an offline-friendly field app for home-service crews.
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Smiling Plug describes two separate workflows rather than a single broad software platform. Dibs combines past grade data, live seat counts, student reviews, and alerts for reopened course sections; the second product is aimed at crews whose work moves from a door knock to an estimate, schedule, invoice, and payment. The company says the field app is still in development and emphasizes retaining records when a crew is offline.
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