Project Type
Shared household bills and chores app
Project
Homestead
A shared bills and chores app that helps households split costs evenly and stay on top of tasks.
Audience
Households, roommates, and families splitting costs and chores.
Overview
Homestead helps households split bills evenly and keep chores assigned and tracked. Members join a household with a pairing code, then add bills that are automatically split equally, mark shares as paid, and assign or complete chores together.
Highlights
- Automatic even bill-splitting across household members.
- Simple pairing code flow to join a household.
- Shared chore assignment and completion tracking.
Core Problem
Households tracking shared expenses and chores over chat or notes apps lose track of who owes what and who is responsible for which task, leading to awkward money conversations and uneven workloads.
Solution Direction
A dedicated shared experience where households join through a pairing code and see live updates as bills are split, shares are marked paid, and chores are assigned and completed, keeping everyone accountable.
Scope
- Household creation, pairing, and multi-member bill/chore sharing.
- Automatic equal-split bill tracking and real-time chore assignment.
- Account security, email verification, and data retention handling.
Tech Focus
- Flutter mobile client
- Laravel API backend with isolated domain data model
- Household pairing and entitlement management
- In-app purchase support for unlimited households
Role & Delivery
- Product and engineering direction for the mobile and backend experience.
- Implementation of household, bill-splitting, and chore workflows end to end.
- Delivery decisions balancing simplicity with household-sharing needs.
Project Outcomes
- Clearer accountability for who owes what on shared bills.
- Fewer dropped or forgotten household chores.
- A reliable shared workflow for managing household responsibilities.