What happened to
the chore
spreadsheet?
It became
an app
wait, how?
so I just
described it
and it's on my
home screen
now
Describe it. It's a real app. Text the link to anyone.
Your stuff is yours
No one can see it but you. Not even the person who made the app.
Your stuff lives in your Drive
Every app saves to your storage, so it outlives any app.
A real link, a real app
Text it to anyone. It opens on their phone and sits on their home screen.
No ads. No subscriptions.
AI inside an app costs pennies, paid by whoever uses it.
A time machine for your files
See what your stuff looked like last week or last year, and bring it back.
Your documents, but alive.
Ten years ago, everything was a document. Your trip was a doc. Your move, the wedding guest list, the kids' chore chart, the reading pile. Spreadsheets you bent into shape, because that was the only option.
A document just sits there. The same thing can be an app now. Your trip doc is a list of links you scroll past; the app shows the map, splits the cost, and ticks off the packing list on the way to the airport.
Most people say they don't have an app idea. They almost always do. It's just filed in their head as something annoying, not as something you could build. So instead of asking what app you want, ask yourself:
- What did you search the app store for and never find?
- What spreadsheet do you keep going back in and fixing?
- What does your group chat decide all over again every time?
- What do you do every week that you have never once enjoyed doing?
That thing is the app. And you already know how it should work, down to the small details, because you are the person who needs it.
You just describe it. Type what you want the way you'd explain it to a friend ("a chore chart for three kids, and it should reset every Sunday"), then watch it get built. Don't like something? Say so. You never touch code, and there is nothing to install or set up.
It's a real app, not a file. It lives at a link you can text to someone. It opens on your phone like anything else. The people you share it with sign in as themselves and see their own stuff. And it's still there next week, on a different phone, without you doing anything.
When you want it to do something new, you ask. Every version is kept, so nothing you liked gets lost.
People are making things like:
- A Japan trip planner that converts yen to dollars, knows which JR pass covers which train, and shows what's near tonight's hotel
- A chore chart that rotates on Sunday morning and gives the eight-year-old the easy tasks
- A workout log that opens on what you lifted last Tuesday and tells you exactly how much you should lift today
- A recipe box with the six things you actually cook, scaled to however many are eating
- A game with your kid's name in it, and your dog as the character
None of these are in an app store. They're too specific to be worth anyone's time but yours.
So what is the thing you have always wanted to exist, that nobody else was ever going to build for you? Tell us what you'd make