About Us
Our family is excited to share this app with you. It’s helped us, and we hope it helps you as well. But I want to be honest. This thing didn’t start because of brilliant research and the desire to build a new technological tool. Not even close.
It started with a messy room, an annoyed dad, and three cardboard boxes.
After Christmas one year, our 10-year-old's room was a disaster. Toys she'd outgrown, gifts she didn't need, clothes that hadn’t fit in a year. I asked her to sort through it and figure it out. Ok, more like grumpily demanded. You can guess how well that went.
So I got an idea. I handed her three boxes and said: this one's for things you want to Keep, this one's for things you want to Sell, and this one's for things you want to Give to others. Just put them in the boxes and we’ll go from there.
An hour later, she'd sorted everything and even more impressively, she did it on her own. She was proud of it. Happy she found a system that worked. And glad she didn’t have to get hassled by dad anymore.
This wasn’t a genius moment. It was just a way to get something done in an easy, more fun way.
That’s when I decided to try and digitize the process, for our families and others. As I worked through it, other fun features came to mind. Things like naming a price for that garage sale, sharing locations of local donation centers, and actually picking the room the thing belongs.
And then once I had all this data, I realized that parents could find a lot of value. There was now an inventory of all the kids’ stuff. The family ‘Kidventory’ (you can see what I did there). Parents could get a better view of what they had, and where it belonged. How much of a difference they’d made from donating used items. Helping kids realize just how much stuff they had. There was real value in that information at their fingertips.
So I built it. It's simple on purpose. No complicated features, no pushy ads, no trying to be everything.
Snap it. Sort it. Done.
Why We Built It This Way
Kids make the decisions. It's their stuff. They choose.
Parents get visibility. See what they want to sell, what they're donating, where things are going. If you disagree where something went, then that’s a conversation to have as a family.
No AI hype. Helper Mode suggests item details, but it's optional and we don't call it "AI" with kids. It's just helpful. The technology is there to help, not to run things.
Privacy first. No ads, no tracking, no selling data. This is a family app.