We built an app. It is called Village, and it is the thing we wish existed when our own families were running on sticky notes, group texts, and a fridge whiteboard nobody ever updated.
Village puts chores, meals, rewards, calendars, and school tracking in one place. Everyone in the family gets their own login. When a kid checks off a chore, you see it. When someone adds milk to the shopping list, you see it. No group text, no "I thought you were picking that up."
What it does
The short version: Village is the app that keeps your family running. Here is the longer version.
- Chore tracking with points. Create chores, assign them to family members, set due dates. Kids earn points for finishing. You approve or deny the work. We built the points system because we have kids, and "clean your room" lands different when there is a reward on the other side of it.
- Rewards shop. You define what points are worth. Extra screen time, a trip to the park, cold hard cash — whatever works in your house. Kids redeem points, you approve. You are in control of the whole economy.
- Meal planning that actually helps. Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the week. Save your recipes. Generate a shopping list from the meal plan with one click. No more standing in front of the fridge at 5 p.m. wondering what to cook.
- Shopping lists that sync in real time. Everyone adds what they need. Mark things off as you shop. Auto-generated from meal plans or built by hand.
- One calendar for the whole family. Practices, appointments, school events, birthdays — all in one place. Color-coded by family member so you know at a glance whose week is about to get complicated.
- School tracking. Homework, projects, tests, grades — set up subjects for each kid and see what is due this week. Fewer late assignments, fewer surprises at parent-teacher conferences.
- Real-time notifications. When a chore is finished, a reward is redeemed, or someone adds something to the shopping list, you know right away. The whole app updates live.
- Family management. Invite family members with a simple code. Set roles — parents manage, kids participate. Everyone sees their own dashboard.
Why we built it
Cyberal Solutions is a small managed IT shop. Most of what we do is keep small business networks running, patch servers, and make sure backups work. But we also write code. Real code — the kind that turns into an app your family can use every day.
Village runs on the same stack we recommend to clients who need custom tooling: a Flutter front end, a .NET back end, and SignalR for real-time updates. It is not a prototype or a side project we abandoned after a weekend. It is a working app, deployed and live, with a proper API, authentication, and a database.
We built it because we think a small shop should be able to show you what it can do, not just tell you. If you are a business wondering whether we can build the custom tool you have been talking about for two years — this is our answer.
How to try it
Village is free for 30 days. After that it is $5.99 a month for the whole family. Cancel anytime before the trial ends and you will not be charged. Sign up here — it takes about two minutes.
If your family runs on six different apps and a fridge whiteboard nobody updates, give it a shot.
And if you have a business idea that needs an app, or a workflow that is held together with duct tape and Outlook rules, we do free 30-minute reviews. You tell us what you need, we tell you straight what it would take to build it.