I’ve developed several webapps to help our family and personal life:
* Vehicle Maintenance Tracker: Logs all vehicle maintenance and sends reminders based on time or mileage for upcoming tasks. This one is probably one of the most used and useful of everything I have made.
Lend/Borrow Tracker: Keeps track of items we've lent or borrowed, to/from whom, and when. We use it most for books, but it can be used for anything.
Library Book Manager: Lists all the books we checked out from local libraries, displaying their cover images and ISBNs. Using a barcode scanner, we can quickly "check in" books on return day, accompanied by an adorable "ding ding!" sound recorded by one of my kids. Really beats manually searching the paper printout. It can be used on multiple devices at the same time - the checkin status of each book is synced live between all users, so each kid can find and check in their own books.
School/Home Lunch Manager: Displays the school lunch menu alongside each of my kids’ names. We mark school/home lunch days at the start of the week for easy morning prep.
Sickness Documentation: Tracks sickness details like symptoms, medication, temperatures, and timelines, helping us coordinate how we are going to take care of the kids when they are sick.
These apps, along with a few others not listed here, run on a server in my home, accessible only within our network (in home of via a VPN).
Very interesting! We’ve always tracked medications on paper, but would love the option to add in reminders, etc.
Would you mind sharing any of these projects if you have them on gitlab?
* Vehicle Maintenance Tracker: Logs all vehicle maintenance and sends reminders based on time or mileage for upcoming tasks. This one is probably one of the most used and useful of everything I have made.
Lend/Borrow Tracker: Keeps track of items we've lent or borrowed, to/from whom, and when. We use it most for books, but it can be used for anything.
Library Book Manager: Lists all the books we checked out from local libraries, displaying their cover images and ISBNs. Using a barcode scanner, we can quickly "check in" books on return day, accompanied by an adorable "ding ding!" sound recorded by one of my kids. Really beats manually searching the paper printout. It can be used on multiple devices at the same time - the checkin status of each book is synced live between all users, so each kid can find and check in their own books.
School/Home Lunch Manager: Displays the school lunch menu alongside each of my kids’ names. We mark school/home lunch days at the start of the week for easy morning prep.
Sickness Documentation: Tracks sickness details like symptoms, medication, temperatures, and timelines, helping us coordinate how we are going to take care of the kids when they are sick.
These apps, along with a few others not listed here, run on a server in my home, accessible only within our network (in home of via a VPN).