A quiet little app for the two of you.
Domovoi is the small, attentive helper who lives in your shared life. Keeping track of the dinners, the chores, the appointments, the running list of small things that hold a household together. So you can stop being each other's calendar, and just be each other.
01 · Why we built itWe built this because we were tired.
Modern coupled life is administered through fifteen apps at once. The grocery list lives in Notes. The dishwasher schedule lives in no one's head except, occasionally, in resentment. Everything ends up on the partner who thought of it first, which is rarely the partner who should be doing it.
My wife would say things like "I wish there was an app for that." A few years ago those would have stayed wishes. AI changed that. So I started building small, specific tools made for her actual life. A recipe library that imports any URL. A meal planner that scales shopping lists with portion changes. A watchlist that surfaces only what we agree on.
A year in, two things became clear. The tools weren't as niche as they felt; most of our friends have a version of the same problem. And they belong together as one app.
So we're making one. It's small. It's slow. It pays attention to both of you.
02 · NameWhat's a domovoi, anyway?
In Slavic folklore, a domovoi is a small household spirit who lives behind the stove. If you feed him, sweep the floors, and treat your partner kindly, he keeps the home in order. Milk doesn't sour, bread rises, things stay where you left them. If you bicker and let the dishes pile, he leaves, and the house slowly falls apart.
We thought that was a pretty good metaphor for a household app. The small things matter. The kindness compounds. The work of two people, done together, is much warmer than the work of one person doing everything quietly.
The character you'll see around the app is our take on that spirit. A fluffy plum body, two big eyes peering out, a small coral nose. He looks slightly mischievous, occasionally tired, and always rooting for you.
The house keeps itself when both of you are paying a little attention. Domovoi is just the part that remembers which little.
03 · BeliefsWhat we're trying to build.
No streaks. No scoreboards. No "productivity."
You are not optimizing a startup. You are sharing a life. The app should feel like a kitchen, not a Jira board. Quiet, warm, and forgiving of the day you both forgot to take the trash out.
Every feature ships paired, or it doesn't ship.
If a thing makes sense only for the partner who already does most of the planning, it's the wrong thing. We design for the moment between the two of you. The handoff, the surprise, the quiet "I got it."
The point isn't to track more. It's to remember less.
A good household app should be subtractive. Fewer reminders, fewer apps, fewer "did you?"s across the dinner table. Domovoi is finished when both of you stop thinking about it.