You select a material with a client. Six months later, at tender: discontinued.
The sample's somewhere in your archive. No supplier contact. No spec sheet. Two weeks lost.
So I built a way to track them.
500 samples. 5,000 scans. 1 customer.
Testing with Plasticiet since August 2024. You could be #2.
You send 200 samples. 180 vanish. No idea who saw them or what happened. Stick our QR on each one—track every scan, who viewed it, and what they looked at next.
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Get instant alerts when your sample's scanned. One architecture firm scanned the same sample 47 times over 9 weeks. That's not curiosity—that's a real project brewing.
One sample: 1,000+ scans from designers at a major event. Another: 2 scans total. Stop guessing which materials resonate. The data shows you.
No more "Did anyone follow up with that architect?" Everyone has access. No information blackholes.
Remember that sample you sent 6 months ago? We do. Complete scan history, every interaction, all in one place.
Encrypted storage. Role-based access controls. No selling your customer data to competitors.
Where do they end up? Inspiring projects? Sitting in a drawer?
Demo video coming soon. Want to see it now? I'll walk you through it personally.

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Most samples won't lead to huge orders — but they should lead to insight.
Know who's scanning, what's ignored, and where to follow up.
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
An architecture firm scanned one Plasticiet sample 47 times over nine weeks.
They were already a customer. The order was probably coming anyway. But that scan data told us exactly which inquiry to prioritize, and when.
The signal was there. SampleSync surfaced it.
SampleSync has genuinely changed how we connect with designers. Before, getting our products in front of the right specifiers was a real challenge. Now it's straightforward. You can tell it's built by someone who understands both sides. It just works.

Dutch Design Week 2025: Validated at scale. Plasticiet handed out 1,000+ QR-coded samples at their Eindhoven booth, tracking real-time engagement across the entire festival.
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Add specs and details. Takes two minutes.
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Inkjet works best. 30 seconds.
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Anyone scans with their phone. You get notified. The dashboard shows who's interested and who's not.
QR generation, scanning, notifications, and dashboard are live. We're adding export tools and automated triggers based on customer feedback.
No hard sell. Just want to know if this works for you. Dutch direct, Australian straight-up.
Current state: One paying customer (Plasticiet). Several conversations with other material producers.
Goal: 3 more paying customers by end of 2026. You'd be customer #2 (or #3, or #4).
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The Architecture Years
Master's from Melbourne. Studied at TU Delft. Five years designing buildings across Rotterdam and Melbourne—two harbour cities that get design.
Lost 10 days once when a spec'd material got discontinued. Sample vanished. No supplier contact. That happened more than once.
The Factory Year — 2023
Left architecture. Joined Plasticiet, making recycled plastic sheets and furniture. Same problem, opposite side: 200 samples out per month, 80% vanished.
The Build — 2024
Plasticiet's co-founder said, "If only we could attach a code to each sample." Dutch practicality. I thought: I can build this.
Started a CS degree before architecture. Taught myself to code properly during COVID. Built the first version in 9 months.
Now
Working from De Kroon in Rotterdam—a workspace where practicality meets creativity. SampleSync is 20% of my week, freelance dev is 80%. Goal is to flip that.
Target: 3 more paying customers by end of 2026. You could be customer #2. No hiding that this is early—that's the Rotterdam way.
No one else building sample-tracking software has manufactured material samples and watched their own products vanish into architectural firms.
I've been the architect losing days when materials got discontinued.
I've worked in the factory watching 80% of samples vanish with no follow-up.
It works. Not perfectly, but it works.
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Built at De Kroon, Rotterdam—European port city, practical mindset. By someone who's lived your problem. — Ollie