A while ago a friend asked for a way to replace pen and paper to track who’s attending lunch at their co-living community; people come and go and they regularly go from 10 to 50 people, with guests occasionally joining. Initially I suggested a shared Google Sheet or Calendar, but as neither didn’t really work for them, I thought it’d be easy enough to make an app just for them, in the spirit of this article that made the front page a while back[^1]. It took a couple of weeks, was nearly free to host on Firebase, and they just loved it and kept using it daily for 2 years, with just the occasional fix from me.<p>At some point though, some of them started asking about using it for other groups and to manage more events. That app was really not designed with that in mind, I didn’t even think about a multi tenancy of any sorts!<p>So I took all the learnings from what was now the MVP, and with some friends we now launched this new version, built on Flutter and Supabase.<p>Hopefully more people will find it useful!
I have some ideas to extend it with CalDAV and Calendar integration for “power users”; but with the idea of keeping things clean and simple for most users.<p>[^1]: <a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/</a>