MacDaddy Built around your stuff
Reminders hang off the actual water heater — its model, its age, its warranty — not off a generic calendar telling everyone in the country to do the same thing in April.
Planned
Your house doesn't remember anything. This does.
What model the water heater is. What size filter the furnace takes. When the roof was done and by whom. What paint is on the hallway wall. Which appliance is still under warranty. One place, with photos, so the answer takes ten seconds instead of a trip to the garage with a flashlight.
The problem
A house is a long-lived, expensive machine that nobody keeps records for.
The information exists. It's on a sticker behind the dryer, in a folder somewhere, in a text message from a contractor two years ago, or in the previous owner's head. So every maintenance question turns into a small research project — and most of them simply don't get done.
The consequences are ordinary and expensive. Filters that go a year instead of three months. Warranties that expire unclaimed because nobody knew the water heater was still covered. A $12 part that becomes a $600 callout. And at the worst possible moment — an insurance claim after a fire or a flood, with nobody able to produce a list of what was in the house.
What's in it
- Assets
- The things in your house — water heater, HVAC, roof, appliances — with model, serial, install date, warranty, and photos.
- The log
- Dated entries with photos: what happened, who did it, what it cost.
- Reminders
- Maintenance tied to the actual appliance and your actual climate — not a generic list of seasonal chores.
- Exports
- The household manual, the insurance inventory, the handoff pack for whoever's watching the place. The moments this is worth real money.
What makes it different
Photos do the work
The fastest way to log a repair is a photo and one line. Point the camera at the model plate and let it fill in the fields rather than typing a serial number off a sticker in the dark.
The exports are the payoff
A household manual for a buyer. An insurance PDF after a disaster. A handoff pack before a holiday. Worth a lot at specific moments and nothing at all in between — which is exactly why you need it already built.
Free for homeowners
No subscription to keep records about your own house. Optional export packs for the moments where it's genuinely worth paying for.
Who it's for
- New homeowners
- The best possible time to start — everything's unfamiliar and there's nothing to reconstruct yet. You build the record as you go instead of from memory.
- Anyone a few
years in - Enough has happened by now to have been forgotten.
- Buying or selling
- A complete household manual is a real asset in a transaction.
- Hosts and
small landlords - Guests need a manual, properties need a log, and multiple addresses need actual records.
And anyone who's just had a claim — though by then it's too late to start. That's rather the point of keeping it beforehand.
What's in the first release
- Assets with photos, model, serial, install date and warranty
- Model-plate capture — photograph the sticker, it fills in the fields
- Dated log entries with photos and cost
- Maintenance reminders per appliance, plus seasonal templates
- Search across everything
- The household manual export
- Sync via iCloud · iPhone and iPad