"I'm going to build a to-do app."
It was a week into buildspace's Nights and Weekends hackathon and I was explaning to a fellow hacker why, in a sea of AI and crypto, I was tackling the productivity app space.

My objectives with kirei were to:

• ship an app and grow the user base
• learn mobile development
• maintain a playground app for trialing new frameworks and technologies

I was also fascinated by the idea of boutique apps - these are solo or small-team built apps that solve a specific problem for a micro niche.

Kirei, specifically, helps with household chores, scheduling them and distributing them amongst housemates to free up mental energy for things that our users care more about.

From chatting with potential users, I found that folks with ADHD loved existing tidying apps, and even paid for subscriptions to keep their days on track. I was excited by the challenge of improving upon these competitors by focusing on the onboarding and task management system

I launched the MVP -- a web-only experience -- at the end of January and am currently building the mobile app on React Native. The initial stack was chosen for familiarity with the technologies since the goal was to gtfol (get the f-- off localhost) as quick as possible.

Current (V0):

• ReactJS (Frontend) hosted on AWS Amplify
• GraphQL/Apollo
• NodeJS (Backend) deployed on Heroku
• PostGres

Post Migration (V1):

• React Native in order to build once for web and mobile
• NextJS? (debating)