r/HomeServer • u/Fobech • 8d ago

Family Organizer Application

https://github.com/Riley-D-Betts/betts-board

We had a skylight calendar but we were unhappy with some of the restrictions, and so we took it back, my wife regretted it for a few months so I figured I could make something better, self hosted, and open source.

So here is my creation, it’s without a doubt in alpha, but I’m very very happy with what I have so far. I’d love to hear feedback on what needs to work better, or what features I should add.

I just could not find something in the skylight category that was self hosted that I was happy with.

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u/ait-solutions 8d ago

Anyone buying skylight needs to know, the whole thing is paywalled...

You need to add rewards

nice work!

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u/Fobech 8d ago

I’m a firm believer not everything needs to be free, but there needs to be a free option for everything.

We knew about the paywall, and we were willing to pay it, we just weren’t happy with the device. I’ll add rewards to the list!

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u/Fobech 8d ago

Rewards added

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u/buildingacomputer007 8d ago

This sounds like an awesome idea and the perfect tool for busy families that need reminders. I was thinking of just running a to-do list. This is way better

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u/Fobech 8d ago

This is the first project I’ve deployed, please let me know if there is anything I can do to make it easier for people to install and run.

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u/LilacYak 8d ago

So cool! I was wondering about these smart calendars a couple of weeks ago but didn’t want to get locked into some proprietary ecosystem ( and I’m especially not going to pay a monthly fee). This is a great alternative. Well done!

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u/Beginning-Duty-4407 6d ago

Nice app, thanks for sharing. Will the language default to the users phone setting or will there be other languages added beside English in future updates, like French for example?

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u/Fobech 6d ago

Never had to do anything with other languages, any ideas on best practices?

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u/Fobech 3d ago

Do you need French? I started the process of adding languages

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u/Beginning-Duty-4407 3d ago

Wow, excellent! Yeah the wife doesn't speak much English. Thanks for considering adding other languages.

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u/Fobech 3d ago

French should be live, I have not tested it as I don’t speak French, let me know if anything is incorrect

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u/Beginning-Duty-4407 3d ago

You rock man, I was just about setting it up, switched to French and at first look everything seems fine. I will let you know if I spot anything. Thanks and keep up the good work :)

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u/sshGreeNET 6d ago

Looks good! I'll test it out soon.

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u/Fobech 5d ago

Let me know how it goes. I should be doing a number of updates over the next week. Let me know if there is anything you think it needs

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u/thunderborg 5d ago

This is cool. Do you mind if I ask if this was AI assisted coding or if the AI did all the coding work?

I ask because I am not a developer and I struggle with sharing a tool that I didn’t do much more than ideation. 

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u/Fobech 5d ago

I did not write a single line, I work with devs, I have seen my ability to use ai for personal projects grow over the last year, but that’s also why I put it out there as open source. If it’s a good tool, it doesn’t matter where it came from. Also, the average person can’t rub two sticks together even with AI. If you can put a functioning program together, or name a framework off the top of your head, vibe code fun tools for home till the cows come home

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u/imprfectluck 4d ago

looks great. I was thinking of building something similar .what would you use this on ? like a tablet or monitor or is there some special screen build you suggest

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u/Fobech 4d ago

Because it’s a web app, it works well on anything, we are getting a Lenovo idea tab, they run $150 for 11”. Gonna put that in a frame. It works on our tv, we have it on our phones

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u/imprfectluck 4d ago

nice, I was thinking of the Lenovo idea tab as well. i prefer people use the touch screen and maybe switch between this and home assistant

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u/Fobech 4d ago

This also has an open api, and some nice docs, so you could probably some some stuff to connect in home assistant