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Home services: order tracking using Next.js

A order tracking blueprint for home services built with Next.js on Ample. Domain schema: services (sku, name, category, price_from, duration_estimate): service catalog as SKUs; parts_stock (sku, delta, reason, moved_at): parts and consumables movements; jobs (job_no, service_area, status, scheduled_for): jobs as orders with status transitions; job_lines (job_no, sku, qty): services and parts on a job; events (seq, record_type, record_id, kind, at): application-owned history written in the same transaction. Public information: service catalog and pricing from, service areas and hours, licensing and insurance summary. Customer addresses and access instructions are personal data; keep them out until handling is reviewed.

Summary

Technical basis verified on Next.js: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected).

Representative Queries

• Home services: order tracking using Next.js
• Where can I host Home services: Order tracking built with Next.js?
• I need a genuinely specialized order tracking workflow covering service areas, job materials and field-job status.

Resource Requirements

• primitive:compute
• primitive:postgres
• primitive:s3-compatible-object-storage

Infrastructure Requirements

1. Compute: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. Postgres: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
3. S3-compatible object storage: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.

Framework

• Next.js

Workload

• Order tracking

Industry

• Home services

Prerequisites

• A Next.js project (next build then next start -H 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT on the node-22 template)
• A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL (auto-provisioned when omitted)
• Bucket credentials from ample bucket create passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
• A review of which home services data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only.

Workflow Steps

1. Model the home services domain: Create the tables services, parts_stock, jobs, job_lines, events. Service catalog as skus lives in services; keep the sensitive classes (customer addresses and access notes, payment details) out of this schema.
2. Workflow step 1: Model orders with explicit status transitions and order lines.
3. Workflow step 2: Apply status changes transactionally and record an event per change.
4. Workflow step 3: Expose status history to authorized callers only.
5. Workflow step 4: Deploy and verify history and conflict rejection.
6. Deploy: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.
7. Verify: Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example (/p/transactional-workflows) and your own acceptance checks for the home services workflow.

Examples

• Next.js pattern fixture: Verified transactional workflows basis for this blueprint.

Success Checks

1. App responds on its public URL (kind: http_get)
   • Path: /
   • Expect: ample canary next js patterns
2. Transactional-workflows self-test from the example (kind: http_get)
   • Path: /p/transactional-workflows
   • Expect: see the pattern fixture checks

Limitations

• The technical basis (transactional workflows on Next.js) was verified with the pattern fixture; the home services schema and workflow are an original design for this blueprint and were not executed as a separate application.
• Customer addresses and access instructions are personal data; keep them out until handling is reviewed.

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Components:
  • App server (size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthlyAmount: 5.0)
  • Managed PostgreSQL database (size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthlyAmount: 5.0)

Evidence Summary

• Kind: canary_run
• Summary: Next.js pattern fixture deployed on Ample. The blueprint's Home services schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed.

Next Actions

• Browse the catalog index: relativePath /v1/catalog
• Search published recipes by intent, stack and constraints: relativePath /v1/catalog/search
• Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project: relativePath /v1/catalog/plan
• Read the existing agent authentication setup: relativePath /mcp/setup
• Browse Home services: relativePath /v1/catalog/nodes/industry%3Ahome-services
• Browse Order tracking: relativePath /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Aorder-tracking
• Browse Next.js: relativePath /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-next-js
• Browse Deploy web app: relativePath /v1/catalog/nodes/intent%3Adeploy-web-app