So, near two years ago I started working on a website for my small local firewood business, I had an idea to build a firewood calculator for my customers to answer some of their common questions. It turned out to be fairly popular so I improved it and started posting it around so people could use it, I made one such post on these forums, here 
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/accurate-firewood-btu-values-100-woods-rated.206607/
Well, I never stopped working on it. It has evolved and grown into a full fledged app with quite a large set of features, I just opened it up yesterday. Easiest way to see what it is all about is this short video:
If you prefer to read the wall of text though here it is:
Track your wood
- Log every stack you own: species, volume, moisture %, and what you paid
- Photograph each stack, and opt in to show it in the public Stack Gallery
- Voice input: say what you stacked and it fills in the entry for you
Burn tracking and savings
- Record each burn; every entry is auto-tagged with that day's weather (temp, wind, snow)
- See your real heating cost versus electricity, oil, propane, and gas, in dollars
- Year-over-year charts of how much you burned and saved
- Shareable burn-history link
BTU and reference tools
- Interactive BTU tables with a live moisture slider (real FAO physics, not a static chart)
- Compare up to 4 species side by side: heat, weight, coaling, burn time
- Cost-of-heat layer that uses your own local fuel prices
- Blend and volume calculator: weight, BTU, and fuel mix of any combination before you buy
- In-chat firewood bot: ask !btu oak 30% and get the numbers
Forecasts
- On-demand 12h / 24h burn forecasts based on the weather and your own usage history
- Optional scheduled morning reports, in-app and by email
Community
- Member chat: channels and direct messages, reactions, @mentions, GIFs, image and file sharing
- Kindling and Rings: earn community points for logging wood, posting photos, and referrals
- Member giveaways and leaderboards
- Embertide: a cozy firewood survival mini-game that plays out in chat
Due to how fast bots are advancing with AI I have decided to make it invite only, I think this is the most efficient way to keep it clean.
It lives here: https://firewoodtracker.com
Some Invite Codes for those interested:
M4QZ2X56CMMXBT28
5FPDG9DJ2RCF91XK
RNMPS76H7N9QWHW4
22QB8W13CVAZRERH
Hopefully enough people will use it that I can justify to myself the time spent![[Hearth.com] Firewood Tracker](/talk/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jsdelivr.net%2Fjoypixels%2Fassets%2F8.0%2Fpng%2Funicode%2F64%2F1f602.png&hash=4cad2fef106a2ed19657776ccc95cfa4 "[Hearth.com] Firewood Tracker")
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/accurate-firewood-btu-values-100-woods-rated.206607/Well, I never stopped working on it. It has evolved and grown into a full fledged app with quite a large set of features, I just opened it up yesterday. Easiest way to see what it is all about is this short video:
If you prefer to read the wall of text though here it is:
Track your wood
- Log every stack you own: species, volume, moisture %, and what you paid
- Photograph each stack, and opt in to show it in the public Stack Gallery
- Voice input: say what you stacked and it fills in the entry for you
Burn tracking and savings
- Record each burn; every entry is auto-tagged with that day's weather (temp, wind, snow)
- See your real heating cost versus electricity, oil, propane, and gas, in dollars
- Year-over-year charts of how much you burned and saved
- Shareable burn-history link
BTU and reference tools
- Interactive BTU tables with a live moisture slider (real FAO physics, not a static chart)
- Compare up to 4 species side by side: heat, weight, coaling, burn time
- Cost-of-heat layer that uses your own local fuel prices
- Blend and volume calculator: weight, BTU, and fuel mix of any combination before you buy
- In-chat firewood bot: ask !btu oak 30% and get the numbers
Forecasts
- On-demand 12h / 24h burn forecasts based on the weather and your own usage history
- Optional scheduled morning reports, in-app and by email
Community
- Member chat: channels and direct messages, reactions, @mentions, GIFs, image and file sharing
- Kindling and Rings: earn community points for logging wood, posting photos, and referrals
- Member giveaways and leaderboards
- Embertide: a cozy firewood survival mini-game that plays out in chat
Due to how fast bots are advancing with AI I have decided to make it invite only, I think this is the most efficient way to keep it clean.
It lives here: https://firewoodtracker.com
Some Invite Codes for those interested:
M4QZ2X56CMMXBT28
5FPDG9DJ2RCF91XK
RNMPS76H7N9QWHW4
22QB8W13CVAZRERH
Hopefully enough people will use it that I can justify to myself the time spent
![[Hearth.com] Firewood Tracker](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png "[Hearth.com] Firewood Tracker")
