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Why I built homie

A household app that started during long days on the sofa, a sleeping baby, and a list of things nobody had bought.

I'm a software developer. My parental leave started when our baby was seven months old. She slept a lot, but only while being held. Contact sleeping, so one of us was always pinned to the sofa in the middle of the day, phone in hand, going nowhere. I doom-scrolled through a lot of those hours.

At first, home organization wasn't really the problem. We were just surviving. But as the weeks went on, the gaps started to show: groceries nobody remembered to buy, bills that slipped through, the "I thought you were handling that" conversations that kept coming up. Running a household with a baby is a logistics job nobody trains you for, and at some point we needed actual support with it.

We tried shared notes, spreadsheets, a couple of apps stitched together. Nothing stuck. One app for expenses, another for shopping, reminders scattered across both our phones. The system was always more work than the problem it was supposed to solve.

So somewhere between those long days on the sofa and the baby finally sleeping in a cot, I started building homie. Not because the world needed another app, but because we needed one place where our household just worked. One app to track who bought what, what we need from the store, whose turn it is to do laundry, what's happening this week. All of it in sync, simple enough that both of us would actually use it.

That's the whole story. No grand vision, no team behind it. Just a solo developer who kept forgetting to buy diapers and wanted a better way to share the mental load with his partner.

What homie believes

One app, not five

The fewer apps your household needs to install and check, the more likely everyone actually uses the system. homie handles expenses, shopping, chores, and calendar in one place because that's the only way it works in real life.

Built for real households

Couples, families, roommates. Not enterprise teams. The features exist because someone in a real home needed them, not because a product roadmap said so.

Honest and independent

homie is indie software, built by one person, funded by the people who use it. No venture capital timelines, no growth-at-all-costs pressure. Just a tool that tries to be genuinely useful.