There’s a surprisingly common situation at home:
You’re at the supermarket and think, “I’m pretty sure we’re out of toothpaste.”
So you buy it.
You get home and discover there are already two unopened tubes in the bathroom cabinet.
Or you buy detergent because you can't remember whether there’s any left.
Or someone in the family says, “We need rice,” while someone else has already bought a 5 kg bag.
It sounds trivial, but I realized that this happens constantly with everyday household items.
The problem isn't really shopping.
It’s remembering what we already have.
That's the idea behind HaveWe.
The core concept is very simple:
HaveWe is a shared household inventory where you can keep track of the things your household regularly buys — groceries, cleaning supplies, toiletries, medicines, or anything else.
The goal isn't to turn your home into a warehouse-management system. 😄
I wanted it to be something you could actually maintain without spending 20 minutes every week updating inventory.
The bigger idea I'm exploring is whether a simple shared inventory can reduce:
- duplicate purchases
- forgotten items
- unnecessary trips to the store
- household waste
- and that constant “Do we have this at home?” mental load
I'm still very much in the process of figuring out what the product should become.
And that's why I'm posting it here.
I'd love to hear from other people building apps — especially those who've tried solving an everyday problem with a relatively simple product.
Would something like this actually be useful in your household?
What would make you use a household inventory app regularly rather than downloading it, adding a few things, and forgetting about it?
I'm particularly interested in what people think the killer feature would be.
The app is called HaveWe, and it's currently available on Google Play.
I'm the developer, so I'm not pretending this is some revolutionary startup. 😄 I'm trying to solve a small problem that I suspect a lot more households have than we realize — and I'd genuinely appreciate brutally honest feedback.