The ticket said ’let a parent leave a family.’ Simple. Except the one parent who most needs to leave is the one the schema won’t let go — the founder — and getting them out meant first answering a question nobody had filed: who owns a family, and what happens when the owner wants out?
ChoreMojo was forked from an app built deliberately for one child. Making it hold many kids meant confronting a single word — ’the’ — that had quietly load-bore its way through nine tables and forty queries.
Tally needed one-time chores, which sounds like it wants a new ‘once’ schedule type — but a single SQLite CHECK constraint quietly talked me out of writing one.
OurBudgetTracker v0.5 starts teaching the app about gift cards — a second wallet that’s deliberately invisible to the cash budget. Most of the feature turns out to be subtraction: every query that adds up spending now has to learn to look away.