Children of House
micasa — Your House, in a Terminal
A terminal UI for tracking everything about your home—maintenance schedules, projects, appliances, vendors, quotes, and documents—all stored in a single local SQLite file. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions. Vim-style keyboard navigation, auto-computed maintenance due dates, warranty tracking, incident logging, and document attachments that live in the database. Built because the developer’s home maintenance system was “a shoebox of receipts and the vague feeling I was supposed to call someone about the roof.” Another example of someone building the tool they wish existed, shipping it as open source, and replacing a category of SaaS home management apps with 30 seconds of go install. Local-first, offline-capable, infinitely backupable. The kind of software that just works and stays out of your way.
Resurf — Capture Things Worth Resurfacing
A local-first personal library for Mac that treats your saved thoughts, links, images, and voice memos like they deserve to be rediscovered, not buried. Keyboard shortcut capture, Spotlight-style search, optional inbox-first workflow, in-app web view for reading without context-switching. Everything stays local on your Mac unless you choose to share it. Free to try, macOS 14+, iPhone app coming soon. It’s the “everything bucket” category (Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes) reimagined as native, fast, and privacy-respecting. Another entry in the growing catalog of local-first tools that refuse to rent you access to your own data.