Features
What hdb.io does today.
The list below is what already ships. Households opt in per module, so a one-bedroom flat keeps things simple and a five-person house with kids gets the whole spread. New modules drop in without touching core; the next batch is at the bottom of the page.
Inventory
Everything you own, in one place
Things live in locations. Locations live in rooms. Rooms live in households. Photos, serial numbers, purchase dates, warranty windows, all attached.
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Quick-add from a barcode or photo
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Tag, search, and filter across rooms
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Per-thing history: receipt, manual, repairs, current location
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Export the whole inventory at any time
Library
The end of the kitchen drawer
Receipts, manuals, warranties, council notices, insurance docs. PDFs and photos. Filed by item, by vendor, by date, and searchable across everything.
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Snap a receipt, OCR fills the fields
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Link a manual to the appliance it belongs to
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Warranty expiry shows up on the household calendar
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Yes, the receipts from five years ago are still findable
Vehicles
Each car a first-class thing
Your cars get their own page: rego, service intervals, fuel log, the location of the spare key. AI Hydrate prefills make/model specs from VIN.
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Service log with reminders before the next one is due
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✨ Hydrate fills in specs without you typing them
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Receipts and manuals link straight to the vehicle
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Reusable as a pattern for pets and plants later
Pets
Animals as household members
Each pet is a first-class member with its own profile and photo. It can own things (bed, food, medication), tracks a weight curve over time, and carries a care schedule that lands on the calendar.
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Care schedule: vaccinations, flea/tick/worm, vet checkups, grooming
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Weight curve tracked over time, photo shown wherever the pet appears
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✨ Breed-aware care guide: typical weight, lifespan, foods to avoid, a suggested schedule
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✨ Not sure of the breed? Upload a photo and let AI suggest it
Maintenance
A service history for the house itself
What broke, what got fixed, what is due. Every repair attached to the item. Every recurring task on the calendar. The fence-painting weekend has a date now.
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Log a repair in 30 seconds with photo and cost
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Recurring maintenance (gutter clean, smoke alarm test) auto-schedules
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Tradie contact attached to the job
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Sell the house someday? Hand the new owner the full history
Family ops
Chores, pocket money, shared device
Chores assign to people. Pocket money credits when chores tick off. The kitchen iPad shows today’s tasks at the right level for whoever’s using it.
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Assign one-off or recurring chores per person
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Wallet balances per kid with scheduled allowances
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Kids without logins are first-class members
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Shared-device dashboard with revocable per-device tokens
Wallet
Pocket money without the spreadsheet
Each resident has a wallet. Chores pay in. Withdrawals go out. A weekly or monthly bonus mode (interest, no-spend reward) optionally pays a percentage on the closing balance.
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Per-person currency support (AUD, USD, …)
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Configurable bonus mode and rate per household
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Transaction-style ledger with running totals
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Read-only on the kid’s shared-device view
Subscriptions
Every recurring service, one list
Streaming, insurance, the gym, the cloud storage you forgot about. Each subscription is a thing with a renewal date, a cost, and a category, projected onto the calendar so the charge never surprises you.
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Renewal dates on the household calendar
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A cancel link for around fifty common providers
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Receipt scans flag a likely new subscription and nudge you to track it
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Grouped by category, so you can see where the monthly total goes
Currency
One household, one currency
Pick your household’s native currency once. Prices entered in another currency convert at the live rate, frozen at the moment you save so the number never drifts later.
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Per-household native currency
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Live rates (Frankfurter) with the conversion frozen at write time
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Works across things, receipts, and subscriptions
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A banner surfaces anything still sitting in a foreign currency
Calendar
One household, one schedule
Week, month, and agenda views over one shared schedule: school terms, swimming lessons, the cleaner, recurring maintenance, birthdays, subscription renewals, and pet care. Type an event in plain English and let AI fill in the details. Subscribe to the whole thing from the calendar app on your phone.
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Week, month, and agenda views, with a routine overlay for weekly chores
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Natural-language quick-add: "Dentist for Mia next Tue 9am, every 2 weeks"
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Tag events to people and things; per-person colours and filtering
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Bi-weekly, bi-monthly, and custom recurrence rules
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Auto-projected entries from maintenance, renewals, subscriptions, school terms, and pet care
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Calendar subscriptions: read-only iCalendar feeds for Apple or Google Calendar and DAVx5, scoped per connection
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Per-event visibility, with reminders that find the right person via email or push
Knowledge
The household wiki
How the heater works. Where the stopcock is. What the previous owners told you about the bore. The things you tell every house-sitter, written down once.
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Markdown editor with safe rendering (no raw HTML, no XSS)
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Photos and embeds where they help
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Polymorphic pages: attach a wiki entry to a thing, vehicle, or person
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Per-entry visibility (the alarm code is for residents only)
People
Members, contacts, and roles
A user can be in multiple households. Roles are per-membership. Tradies, neighbours, the school office, saved once and used everywhere.
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Multi-tenant by household; same user across many
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Roles per household: owner, adult, child, guest
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Contact list with relationship and history
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Person records without a login still get chores, calendar, and wallet
AI capture
OCR, ✨ Hydrate, and marbles
Drop a receipt and walk away: a background queue reads every uploaded receipt or manual and fills in the vendor, amount, and date. Hit ✨ Hydrate on a vehicle, pet, or subscription and the details prefill themselves. Both draw on marbles, one AI-credit currency, so there is a single number to watch instead of separate quotas.
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Marbles: one credit currency for OCR and ✨ Hydrate alike
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A monthly marble pool per household, with a daily burst cap
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Manual override always available when the AI misreads
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Every scan links to the item it belongs to, not a flat inbox
Theming
Make it look like your house
Six built-in palettes plus density and font controls. Per-household identity (name, crest, cover image, tagline). Per-person accent swatches and avatars, with crop, zoom, and ✨ smart-fit.
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Six palettes, light/dark per palette
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Household identity: crest, cover image, tagline
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Per-person accent swatch and avatar with crop/zoom and ✨ smart-fit
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Accessibility: font scale and a full-width layout option
Trust
Your data, your house
API-first. Tenant-scoped at the database level. Magic-link sign-in. PWA today, native via Expo against the same API later.
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Every record scoped by household, enforced server-side
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Magic-link sign-in (no password reuse to worry about)
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PWA today, native via Expo against the same API later
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Data export available on demand
Sync
Realtime where it helps
Chore checked off on the iPad, the parent’s phone updates. Receipt OCR completes, the inbox reflows. No spinning circles for everyday actions.
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Live updates over WebSockets
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Optimistic UI on writes
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Offline-tolerant (queue and retry)
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Same realtime layer powers chat and comments later
Coming soon
The next batch of modules.
These are scaffolded behind placeholder pages today. The plumbing is in place; the UI and worker logic land as the queue moves. Email if one of them moves higher up your list, it bumps the queue.
Lending log
Who borrowed what. Reminders before things drift past the six-month mark.
Documents vault
Long-shelf-life files (insurance, tax, contracts) with tighter ACLs and structured metadata.
Energy & utilities
Bills, meter readings, usage trends across electricity, gas, and water.
Meals & pantry
Weekly meal plan, pantry stock, shopping list, all wired to calendar and things.
Plants & garden
Watering schedule, planting calendar, what is where in the garden.
Travel & trips
Trip plans, packing lists, holiday-house notes wired to calendar and wiki.
That’s most of it.
New modules land roughly monthly. The list above is what already exists; the bottom grid is what is in active build. You don’t need all of it on day one.