My wife asked me what size furnace filter we use. I had no idea. I went downstairs, pulled out the old one, read the size off the side, went to the store, bought the right one. The whole thing took 20 minutes for a question that should have taken 20 seconds.
That same week she asked me what the contractor's name was. The good one we used last year. The one we said we'd call again. I searched my texts. Then my email. Then I gave up and said I'd find it later. I never found it.
I'm a dad. I own a home. I have a car, a family, a bunch of stuff that has model numbers and warranty dates and service histories and contractor contacts. And I had no single place that held any of it. My wife did, mostly. Her head. Which is not a system. Which is also not fair.
"Every app on your phone knows one thing. Notes. Photos. Email. Reminders. None of them know your life. I built something that does."
I'm not a developer by trade. But I know what a problem feels like, and this was a real one. So I started building. With AI help, late nights, and a stubborn refusal to accept that the answer was "just use a notes app." kept is what came out of it.
[ the questions that started it ]
what size furnace filter do we use?
[ home ]
what was that contractor's name, the good one?
[ services ]
what paint color did we use in the living room?
[ home ]
is the dishwasher still under warranty?
[ electronics ]
what size is she in Nike? she's different in Adidas.
[ family ]
when did we last service the septic?
[ home ]
what's the model number on the TV? (for the mount)
[ electronics ]
where did we buy it and what did we pay?
[ everything ]
[ what kept actually is ]
kept is a home and life memory app. You add the things you always forget: appliances, contractors, warranties, kids' sizes, paint colors, model numbers, service dates. It holds them for you. Organized, searchable, always there when someone asks.
It's not a notes app. It's not a spreadsheet. It's not an inventory tool. It's the answer to every question your house and your family will ask you, before you have to go digging.
You scan a barcode and it fills in the details. You type a contractor's name and it stores their number, what they charged, and when to call them again. You add your kid's shoe sizes by brand. You set a reminder for the furnace filter. It takes seconds. It lasts forever.
[ scan barcodes ]
[ scan receipts ]
[ ai item entry ]
[ smart reminders ]
[ accessory finder ]
[ one-tap repurchase ]
[ search everything ]
[ warranty tracking ]
[ works now, no download ]
[ where it's at right now ]
kept is live today at getkeptapp.com. No download, no account, just open it and start adding. It's a working prototype. Real features. Real AI. Real barcode lookup.
I built this solo. No team. No funding. No marketing budget. Just a problem I couldn't stop thinking about and enough stubbornness to ship something.
A native iOS and Android app is coming. If you get on the waitlist now, you're first when it drops. That's the only thing being promised: priority access. No credit card. No pressure.
And if you try it and have a thought (good, bad, "why don't you have this feature"), I want to hear it. Early users are shaping what gets built next. That's not marketing. That's just true.
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Try it. Takes 30 seconds.
No download. No account. Just open it and add something.
your life, kept. · getkeptapp.com