I've been working on releasing an app for maintenance tracking for home. I've always had problems with having in my calendar to replace a battery in my chicken coop every year, then things come up and I end up replacing the battery a few weeks later, so I have to go and change my calendar event. Or fertilizing my hops every two weeks only in the summer. Then in the winter I am getting notified every two weeks. So I built a simple app for tracking those with floating repetition and seasonality. [0]
Also recently got a lot of home VHS tapes digitalized and always had trouble with playing from Google drive or finding the right video. So I just built a webapp this month to split the videos into clips, transcoding it for better streaming, Google casting support, and tagging for search. [1]
Not to be a Debbie downer but Tody already handles home maintenance tracking, and it's already close to perfect IMO. What does your app offer that Tody doesn't? I can't download it because it's iOS only.
I built a maintenance tracking app that I can use for household/garden tasks. I had a problem where things like replacing a battery for a chicken coop, I'd be a month late on replacing it and I had it in my calendar to replace every august, so I'd be replacing it early every year. And I also had in my calendar to fertilize my hop plants every 2 weeks, which meant in January I'd get a calendar event to fertilize my hop plants.
And sometimes my wife wonders what we have to do (especially in spring) for gardening, planting, chickens, etc.
I have paid for to do apps to try and tackle this by using the NLP "every 3 months" etc to basically accomplish this.
I think you're smart to spin it out to its own thing because I tend to use them differently batching my chores into a time gate and then using my "chore list" to know what needs to be done. And also the notifications for chores tend to distract from "Important one time task you don't want to forget".
I'd consider paying for this if the app was well done and reasonably priced.
> the median distance to the nearest food store for the overall U.S. population was 0.9 miles, with 40 percent of the U.S. population living more than 1 mile from a food store. The median distance to the third-nearest food store for the overall population was 1.7 miles. When the ERS researchers looked at rural food store access, they found that the median distance to the nearest and the third-nearest food store was 3.1 miles and 6.1 miles, respectively.
While I agree that a heat pump can't work with hot water baseboard, there is an alternative.
The alternative is removing the baseboard and with a calculated heat load, replacing with panel radiators which run with much lower temperatures. The retrofit wouldn't be too difficult (compared to ducting) as it would involve running 1/2 inch PEX to each room.
With an air to water heat pump, you typically add a buffer tank that among other things helps keep preheated water warm. It is basically a hot water tank so doesn't last through the night
However for other hydronic applications such as solar water heaters there is typically a thermal storage tank which can help store heat like a battery.
Keep in mind a few things. One is some heat pumps are now operating down around -22*F. Second is geothermal is a water to water heat pump that isn't affected as much by the limitations of air temperature (but has other limitations). Third is radiant heat flooring with tubes in concrete acts as a thermal storage tank. Finally heat pumps for heating work best at low temperature hydronic water and can also be used for other applications such as DHW (domestic hot water) which needs to be at slightly higher temperatures than a buffer tank has.
Huge fan of your product. Was using a different coffee subscription that would always show up late and I'd be without coffee. The scale does work well and I've only had once or twice have coffee show up a day late.
Also recently got a lot of home VHS tapes digitalized and always had trouble with playing from Google drive or finding the right video. So I just built a webapp this month to split the videos into clips, transcoding it for better streaming, Google casting support, and tagging for search. [1]
[0]: https://upkeepnest.com [1]: https://heirloomreel.com
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