A working product · In pre launch testing
upKeep makes that manageable. It’s a real app, designed and built end to end. These screens are from my phone.
The problem
A home has hundreds of small jobs. Some repeat, some come round once a year, some are overdue, and some nobody has thought of yet. Drop all of that into an ordinary task app and you get one long list that’s easy to ignore.
upKeep starts from a different question: what actually needs attention? The answer has to arrive without becoming another source of stress.
How the product works
Find jobs you hadn’t thought of.
Choose what gets scheduled, and what doesn’t.
Pick up what fits the time you have.
Log what was done, when, and by whom.
Recurring jobs come back when they’re due.
The system handles recurring jobs, overdue jobs, jobs nobody has scheduled yet and jobs you’ve only just discovered. Each is treated differently, which is what stops it turning into one giant list.
The product
Home
Home shows today’s jobs, how long they’ll take and how many are done. Not the whole backlog. Overdue work gets a plain label, not an alarm.
Below it: the week ahead, what’s coming up, and the state of the house. The greeting even gets a fresh saying every day, as a small touch.
I have time
People rarely have a free hour. This finds the jobs that fit the time you actually have, so a spare ten minutes still gets used.
Walk around
Move through the house room by room and add jobs as you notice them. It solves a different problem to scheduling: you don’t know what you don’t know.
Catch up
Some work has never been scheduled. Catch up suggests it without committing you. A suggestion isn’t a schedule, and you decide what enters your system.
Places and calendar
A home, a weekender, a workshop: each place keeps its own workload and history, and the calendar pulls them into one chronological view.
It’s a list of what’s coming, not a grid to squint at. Overdue work sits at the top.
Built, not just designed
These are screens from the running app, not concepts. Behind them is working software with its own logic and data.
Your idea
Most ideas start as a sense that something should exist. I work through it with you until it’s clear what the product needs to do, then design it, build it, and test it on a real device until it holds up.
What it does, who it’s for, and what it shouldn’t try to do.
How it looks, how it moves, and how it behaves in real use.
Real logic and real data, not a clickable mock-up.
Use it, find what’s wrong, and fix it.
Bring me the idea. We’ll work out what it needs to become.