From zero to 78 customers in 8 months, one truck

Corey cleaned pools for more than 15 years at DC Pool Services in Kennesaw, his brother David’s company. He knew the work cold. Chemistry, equipment, pump rooms, all of it.

What he’d never done was run the business. No billing. No quotes. No chasing anyone for a check. And the software he looked at didn’t fit how a route actually runs.

“The apps I tried felt like they were built by people who’d never skimmed a pool, so I built this one. Every feature exists because I needed it that day.”

So in 2026 he went out on his own. New company, new town, Dallas, GA. No route to buy, no customer list to bring over. Peachy started at zero.

Every customer went into Pool Founder the day he signed them. Each pool got its recurring service and a spot on a route. His day opens on the phone app with the stops in order.

By September he was averaging 8 stops a route day by himself. He finished 200 visits that month. In October that fell to 162, because pools in Georgia start closing for the season.

“I’d been doing this for fifteen years and I knew exactly what I wished the software could do. I just needed someone who could build it.”

One of the pools on his route belongs to Zach, Pool Founder’s other co-founder. That’s how the two of them met in the first place.

This is the part he’d never done before. Peachy has collected $143,426 through Pool Founder so far. Half of his paid invoices were paid within 4 days of going out. 40% were paid within a day. 95% of everything he billed has come in.

When customers pay online, about 3 out of 4 use a card and the rest pay from their bank. More of them are switching to autopay: 27% of October’s invoices, and 41% so far in November.

Payments fail sometimes. A card expires, a bank says no. Of the 17 invoices that had a failed payment, 15 got paid in the end. That was $12,615 that didn’t slip through the cracks.

It’s not only weekly cleans, either. Customers accepted 13 of his quotes, worth $27,930.

When Corey finishes a stop, the customer gets a service report by email on its own. He doesn’t write it or send it. 891 went out this way.

Customers can rate a report with a thumbs up or down. They pressed thumbs up 118 times. Thumbs down: zero.

He also sent 585 on-the-way texts, so people know he’s coming. And he logged 4,985 chemistry readings, so when somebody asks what’s going on with their water, the history is right there.

Peachy has 13 Google reviews, all 5 stars. We’re not taking credit for those. That’s Corey’s work.

Winter. Pools are closing, and 10 of his recurring customers are paused for the season. Paused, not cancelled: they stay on the books for spring.

Then it’s his second season, starting with a route instead of a blank page. We’ll update this page as it goes.