Apna Ghar — Shared Household Manager App

Overview

Apna Ghar is a calm household-management app for individuals, couples and families — one shared place for the shopping list, what’s in the cupboard, reminders, and home maintenance.

Problem

Running a home is a pile of small things spread across chat threads, sticky notes and memory: who is buying milk, whether there is rice left, when the AC was last serviced, when the gas needs booking. Existing tools either cover one slice or feel like an ERP. Households needed something shared and simple that everyone would actually open.

Implementation

• Built a Flutter app on a Node.js/TypeScript/Express API and PostgreSQL, Android first with iOS kept possible.
• Kept the product deliberately small: four tabs — Home, Shopping, Inventory, Maintenance — with reminders reachable from Home rather than another nav item.
• Made input nearly effortless: only an item name is required, quantity defaults to one, and speech input turns "milk, eggs and two kilos of rice" into separate items.
• Connected the pieces so they help each other: low-stock levels surface on Home, purchases restock inventory, and completing maintenance logs history and rolls the next due date forward.
• Designed shared households with owner, member and viewer roles, invite links shareable through any app, live list updates, and notifications for low stock, due reminders and new members.

Outcome

Apna Ghar is live in Google Play production, with sign-in by email or Google, in-app and web account deletion, and a marketing site at apnaghar.app.