Family Hub

Why I built it

Family admin is real work and it was spread across a group chat, a paper list on the fridge and whoever happened to remember. Family Hub replaced all of that with one place — because the house should not depend on one person’s memory.

The problem

Chores, reminders, appointments and the small operational knowledge of a household — where the stopcock is, who fixes the boiler, what to do when the alarm panel misbehaves — lived in people’s heads. That works until it does not.

What it does

It replaces a family assistant chatbot and grew into something considerably larger: chores and tasks with points and a leaderboard, an AI chat that will add a task, send a reminder or look something up, a family calendar snapshot, and a house guide for the things nobody remembers. It runs as an installable app, so it sits on a phone like anything else.

Where it is now

Live and in family use, built in phases, with the family testing each round. Recent work has been on the unglamorous parts that decide whether something gets used — exports that work offline, and proper sign-in including two-factor authentication.

Who it might interest

Anyone who has become the family’s operations department and would like the job distributed. Also worth a look if you are curious what household tooling looks like when it is built around one specific family rather than for a market.