Rubin James
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StormSnap

A phone app for stormwater compliance on construction sites: inspections with photo evidence, BMP checklists and SWPPP reports ready to file with the city.

Status
Public beta
Year
2025
Ownership
Owned product
For
Site inspectors, developers and city stormwater teams
Real public StormSnap.app landing page showing stormwater field inspections, BMP checklists, and a sample report generation interface
Captured from the live public StormSnap.app homepage in October 2026. Product mockup displays illustrative data.

The problem

Construction sites under a stormwater permit have to be inspected on a schedule, with photos and a paper trail. Most of that still happens on a clipboard and gets typed up later, if it gets typed up at all.

Why it matters

A missed inspection or a lost photo becomes a violation notice. When the evidence is captured on site against the permit, the report writes itself as a by-product of the inspection.

What I built

Product design and build, from the first wireframe to the working app.

  • Projects tied to their permit number, construction phase and inspector
  • Inspection forms with weather, phase, photo documentation and a BMP checklist (silt fence, inlet protection and the rest)
  • SWPPP inspection reports generated from the inspection and shared or submitted to the city
  • A dashboard of active projects, pending inspections and priority alerts
  • Separate views for inspectors, developers and city stormwater staff
StormSnap dashboard with active projects, pending inspections and priority alerts (sample data)
Dashboard
StormSnap projects list: Downtown Construction Phase 2 in Dallas with its permit number, phase, inspector and compliance bar (sample data)
Projects
StormSnap inspection form: project, permit number, weather, construction phase, photo documentation and a BMP checklist
Inspection
StormSnap reports: a SWPPP inspection report submitted to the City of Dallas stormwater division, with download and share (sample data)
Reports
StormSnap: product detail

Where it stands

Public beta. Gallery images remain sample-data captures from an earlier demo, not verified customer projects. Signed-in product behavior has not been independently verified.

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