Living together can be a hassle

Recently I’ve started to develop apps for iOS (and of course Android, but that’s boring). And I’ve come to realize that apps can really make our lives easier. Really!

First and foremost; I’m aiming to make my life easier. And that’s why I’ve focused the last weeks on developing an app for collaborative shopping list assembling. I call it Foodistify. It’s supposed to make it easier for couples living together and the chore of shopping for food. Me and my girlfriend often communicate via text (sms, facebook, whatever) during the day and ends up on deciding what we need to buy and who will buy it.

Sometimes we continue to write to each other. Small texts of love. Of course. But then when you get to the store you need to scroll through texts and find the list, often divided in to different texts and make sure you have everything.

That’s why I build an app that has lists, acl and food items. The prototype is a simple list engine, but I’ll extend with ACL and list sharing. The lists should update immediately a new item is added by any user who collaborates on the list.

The app is build with Parse that will handle all the data, ACL and push notifications. And the nice thing with Parse is that it can run background jobs which I can use for collecting common things people buy and suggest lists for people, maybe.

I can think of 100 features that will make food shopping easier, but I plan on releasing a first version that’s really barebone and work from there.

Further on I’m thinking of put together something around doing the dishes, cleaning, taking out the trash and so on. There is no end to the possibilities!