GrubLedger - Sell Project

Key Highlights Turn-key, fully functional vertical SaaS — not a concept or a landing page. GrubLedger is a live, working "business-in-a-box" for food truck operators, deployed at grubledger.com with a custom domain, SSL, and professional branding. Eight working dashboard modules with full CRUD — Overview, Permits & Licenses Tracker, Event Booking Pipeline (Kanban), Location Performance Log, Prep List Generator, Catering Quote Builder, Financial Dashboard, and Settings. Every module reads and writes to a real database. Monetization is already wired and LIVE — Stripe is in live mode (not test), with 3 real subscription tiers, a 7-day free trial, server-side paywall enforcement, a Stripe customer portal, and full webhook handling. The day a buyer gets a paying customer, the money processes automatically. Wide-open niche with no dominant player — 35,000+ food trucks operate in the US, generating $2B+ annually, and the vast majority still run on notebooks, spreadsheets, and group texts. There is no vertical SaaS leader in this space. 100% custom-built — 81 React components, 23 API routes, 13 database models. No purchased template or theme. Recreating this from scratch would cost well into five figures. Complete brand and business asset package — custom logo suite, brand video, style guide, 10-slide pitch deck, full business plan, SOP templates, and a 30-day social media content pack all convey with the sale. Biggest opportunity for a new owner: the product is done — it needs a customer-acquisition engine. A buyer with marketing, SEO, or food-industry connections inherits a launch-ready asset and can focus 100% on growth instead of building. Operations What the business does: GrubLedger is a subscription (SaaS) web application that gives food truck operators a single place to manage the parts of their business that are otherwise scattered across paper and generic apps — tracking permit and license renewals, managing event/catering bookings through a pipeline, logging location-by-location sales performance, generating daily prep lists, building itemized catering quotes, and viewing financial dashboards. How it makes money: Recurring monthly subscriptions across three tiers — Starter ($29/mo, 1 truck), Growth ($59/mo, up to 3 trucks), and Fleet ($99/mo, unlimited trucks). New users get a 7-day free trial; when the trial or subscription lapses, a server-side paywall locks the dashboard and routes them to a billing screen to subscribe via Stripe checkout. Existing subscribers self-manage billing through the Stripe customer portal. Stripe webhooks keep subscription status in sync automatically. What's required to keep it running: The application is hosted and managed on a modern cloud platform, so there is no server maintenance in the traditional sense. Ongoing operations consist of responding to customer support/contact-form inquiries, occasional product improvements and bug fixes, and — most importantly — marketing and customer acquisition. The technical infrastructure runs itself; the human effort is in growth. Estimated time commitment: In its current pre-revenue state, roughly 5–10 hours/week is enough to maintain the product and begin light marketing. A buyer who wants to aggressively grow the customer base should plan for 15–25+ hours/week (or bring on help) focused primarily on marketing, content, and outreach — the product itself does not require heavy day-to-day maintenance. Customers Full transparency: this is a pre-revenue, pre-traction asset. There are currently no paying customers and no signups beyond the demo/seed account. The product went live recently and has not yet run any marketing or paid acquisition. Who the customer is: The target customer is the US food truck operator — a segment of 35,000+ businesses, overwhelmingly domestic. These are small, owner-operated businesses that currently juggle permits, bookings, prep, and finances across disconnected tools. They already spend money on fragmented software (POS, accounting, scheduling), so willingness to pay for a purpose-built solution is strong. How customers would be acquired: No acquisition has been run yet, but the channels are well-defined and largely free/organic — food truck operators are highly active in Facebook groups, Reddit communities, Instagram, and TikTok. Realistic acquisition paths for a new owner include community engagement in those groups, SEO/content marketing around food-truck operations, direct outreach to operators, and partnerships with food truck associations and commissary kitchens. Engagement/loyalty/repeat business: As with any SaaS, the model is inherently recurring — once an operator builds their permit reminders, booking pipeline, and prep workflow around GrubLedger, switching costs are high and retention tends to be strong. However, because there are no customers yet, there is no actual retention, engagement, or repeat-purchase data to report. This is honest and important for buyers to understand. Financials Curren...