80%of Your Samples Vanish.
See Which Ones Lead to Sales.
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. Relationship strained.
I've been on both sides of this problem. Five years as an architect losing materials. One year in a factory watching samples disappear.
So I built a way to track them.
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Sample ID
PLSTC-042
Status
Material
Recycled HDPE
3mm sheet, grey
Scan #47
2 min ago
Sarah Chen · OMA Rotterdam
Total scans
47
this month
500 samples. 5,000 scans. 1 customer. Testing with Plasticiet since August 2024. You could be #2.
What It Does
QR Codes That Actually Tell You Something
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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Know When Someone's Serious
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.
See Which Samples Actually Matter
One sample: 1,000+ scans from designers at a major event. Another: 2 scans total. Stop guessing which materials resonate. The data shows you.
Your Whole Team Sees The Same Data
No more "Did anyone follow up with that architect?" Everyone has access. No information blackholes.
Full Timeline For Every Sample
Remember that sample you sent 6 months ago? We do. Complete scan history, every interaction, all in one place.
Your Data Stays Yours
Encrypted storage. Role-based access controls. No selling your customer data to competitors.
Your Samples Are Out There
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.
Demo Video (0:21)
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.
One Sample, 47 Scans, €500K
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.
How It Works
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Generate QR Code
Add specs and details. Takes two minutes.
Label being applied to sample stack
Print and Apply
Inkjet works best. 30 seconds.
Hand holding phone scanning sample
Track Scans
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.
Not Sure If This Solves Your Problem?
I'm not trying to sell you enterprise software. I want to know if this actually solves your problem.
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).
Working with me
- If you need a feature, I'll build it or tell you why it's a bad idea
- No account managers, no support tickets — direct access
- You help shape what this becomes
- I personally walk you through setup
What SampleSync Isn't
- Not a CRM (but it connects to yours via webhook)
- Not a logistics platform (tracks after delivery, not during shipping)
- Not enterprise software (I personally walk you through setup)
- Not perfect (features get built based on what you actually need)
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Ollie Micek — Founder
The Architecture Years
Master's from Melbourne. Studied at TU Delft. Five years designing buildings in Rotterdam and Melbourne.
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." 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. 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 one else building sample-tracking software has manufactured material samples and watched their own products vanish into architectural firms.
If Your Samples Are Disappearing Into the Void
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 by someone who's lived your problem. — Ollie