Comment by evandev
1 day ago
I've been working on releasing an app for maintenance tracking for home. I've always had problems with having in my calendar to replace a battery in my chicken coop every year, then things come up and I end up replacing the battery a few weeks later, so I have to go and change my calendar event. Or fertilizing my hops every two weeks only in the summer. Then in the winter I am getting notified every two weeks. So I built a simple app for tracking those with floating repetition and seasonality. [0]
Also recently got a lot of home VHS tapes digitalized and always had trouble with playing from Google drive or finding the right video. So I just built a webapp this month to split the videos into clips, transcoding it for better streaming, Google casting support, and tagging for search. [1]
Not to be a Debbie downer but Tody already handles home maintenance tracking, and it's already close to perfect IMO. What does your app offer that Tody doesn't? I can't download it because it's iOS only.
Looking at Toby, it seems to be mainly a cleaning app, it's built for stuff that gets dirty again, like vacuuming and counters. My app I made it do one thing really good and not have to much clutter. Mainly the once-a-year, easy-to-forget things like changing water filters, fuel filters, changing oil, trimming apple trees, etc. It does things Tody isn't built for, like auto-scheduling the next service the moment you finish one, only nagging you about gutters in the right season, and tracking multiple properties if you've got a rental or a cabin. So, while technically I can use my app for cleaning purposes (e.g. set every week change sheets, vacuum floor), I use it for things that happen once a year, only in certain seasons, before winter, every 3 years, etc. And I don't have to worry about the things that might be weeks or months, or years away.
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