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✨ a mini app anyone can use to organize their real-world life πŸͺ„

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Why? πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Our house is untidy. There is clutter (objects that don't belong in a particular room/surface) everywhere.
It's both mentally and physically exhausting and deeply negative to both adults and especially children. 😒

We need to resolve this as our highest priority because it affects us every day.

Why an Build a Mini-App for This?

We currently use instant messages (signal.org) to ask questions like: "Where is XYZ?" when searching for an object or "Where does this belong?" when someone wants to tidy an object away but does not know where it goes. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

The Problem with Using Instant Messages ...

Instant messaging is fine for getting a fast reply. But it's horrible for 2 specific reasons:

  1. The history is lost almost immediately so we have to keep asking the same questions ...

  2. Any new person joining the house/team has no way of knowing where anything is/belongs.

  3. Often the message featuring the question about an object gets pushed up by newer messages in a group thread and gets forgotten about - i.e. remains unresolved. πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

So if we continue using instant messages, we still have exactly the same problem with a bandaid over it and no permanent solution. 🩹

Will Building an App Magically Resolve the Issue? πŸͺ„

Of course not! We aren't pretending that it will.
All we want is a systematic approach to tidying where everyone in the house/team can communicate and get answers to the questions they have in a timely manner and most importantly, have a record of where things belong so that when the question arises again, the answer can be surfaced immediately. Rather than having to continually ask the same question(s).

We know that many other people have the same problem(s) and need a practical solution.

What? ✨

A micro app with a simple goal: help you declutter, tidy & organize your physical environment so you can start living your "best life".

When? ⏳

We want to build this mini app so we can use it internally ASAP.

Who? πŸ‘₯

For now, tidy is used by the people living/working @home.

But if we can refine the features/functionality, we will encourage others to use it.

How? πŸ’»

Try it: URL HERE!

Run it ⬇️

  1. Clone the repo:
git clone [email protected]:dwyl/tidy.git && cd tidy
  1. Install the dependencies and create the database:
source .env_sample
mix setup
  1. Run the app:
mix s

Visit localhost:4000 from your browser, you should see something similar to:

TODO: add screenshot!

##Β Schema

Build It! πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ

The creation of this mini-app is fully documented in: dwyl/book/tidy

Feedback! πŸ™

Your feedback is very much encouraged/welcome! πŸ’¬
If you find the repo interesting/useful, please ⭐ on GitHub.
And if you have any questions, please open an issue: tidy/issues ❓

Contributing πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

All contributions from typo fixes to feature requests are always welcome! πŸ™Œ

Please start by:
a. Star the repo on GitHub so you have a "bookmark" you can return to. ⭐
b. Fork the repo so you have a copy you can "hack" on. 🍴
c. Clone the repo to your localhost and run it! πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

For more detail, please see: dwyl/contributing

More Features? πŸ””

Please note that our goal with tidy is not to have all the features; again, it's deliberately simple.
We will be adding lots more features to the full App.
If you have feature ideas, that's great! πŸŽ‰
Please share them: app/issues

Where Can This Go? πŸ’­

We're building an App to help people keep their life tidy because we know that it's a real problem that affects many people.

How Many People Are Affected? πŸ’­

If you are lucky enough to have grown up in a home where everything has a place and is always perfectly tidy, count yourself exceptionally lucky! You lived in a magazine shoot:

minimalist-magazine-home Image credit: gjgardner.com/learn/minimalist-home-design-ideas

Magazine minimalism is not the "norm"; most people have some degree of clutter in their homes. Either hidden in their closets or in plain sight if they don't have "enough" closet space. Most people in a consumer society continue buying stuff and don't have infinite shelf/wardrobe/cupboard space ... it's physics!

Many people have this problem ...

cluttered-home

Image credit: go.com/Health/clutter-affects-health

Marie Kondo wouldn't need to write "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" - the NYT Bestseller that has sold more than 9 Million Copies - if this wasn't a widespread issue.

Plenty more examples: google.com/search?q=clutter&tbm=isch
Just looking at these images triggers anxiety for me ... 😬
If you feel the same way, read on!

Is there a "Market" for a tidy App?

Most definitely, yes!
If we can build something that helps people declutter, donate and systematize their real world
the potential for revenue is significant.

pain points

For me, the "pain point" of having clutter in the house is level 6 "intense". I literally feel my heart rate spike when I see it. But I feel powerless to do anything because it's not my stuff. 😒

We suspect that for some people the the pain is closer to an 8 and they would gladly throw $100 at solving the problem. I'm at a 6 and would gladly pay $10,000 to make it go away immediately (and permanently). Because I know it's costing us money in "opportunity cost" each and every day.

Hoarders? πŸ™ˆ

At the extreme, accumulation of objects cluttering people's homes is called hoarding disorder.
It is estimated that around 2% – 6% of the population suffers from it: iocdf.org/about-hoarding/who-gets-hoarding-disorder
If these estimates are correct it's tens of millions of people.

If we can build a simple App that can help both the hoarders and their long-suffering family, we can significantly improve millions of people's lives.

Other Use Cases?

Any person that can afford to have someone else cleaning their house has understood the value of their time. But may be too busy working to keep their house perfectly tidy. With a tiny tool that allows your assistant to easily ask "Where does this belong?" busy people can rapidly respond and systematically organize their lives.


1Tidy is our Working title for this mini App so we can discuss it internally. πŸ’‘πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»
If you have a name idea/suggestion that better describes what we are building, please share! πŸ™πŸ’¬

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