Built for one family.
Mine.
Chicknz wasn't a product idea. It was the app I needed at home. Three kids, three different ages, one parent doing the math. So I built the thing.
I spent eight years as a financial analyst. NYU Langone, VNSNY Choice Health Plan, Pager Inc. Spreadsheets, variance reports, month-end. Numbers were the job.
Then I learned to ship code. I now serve as Acting CFO for Little Haiti Brooklyn, a nonprofit in my neighborhood, and build software the rest of the week. Forge BI at forge.keino.dev is the bigger one: an AI financial analytics product for startups, built around the questions I was already answering for my own books.
Chicknz is the same idea pointed at home. Built around the questions a family already has.
Three kids. Different ages, different needs. Chores, calendar, homework, allowance, screen time. Five problems, no single app that handled them as one system.
The fridge had charts. The phone had four apps. The calendar lived somewhere else. Reminders were a group text. Allowance was a paper envelope.
It worked the way a spreadsheet glued together with band-aids works. Until it didn't.
A chore-and-allowance app. A separate family calendar. A homework planner. Each one did one slice well and ignored the rest of the loop.
The kids loved the new app for two weeks. Then they forgot. Then I forgot. Then the fridge charts came back. The cycle ran twice before I admitted no off-the-shelf product was going to fit.
Chicknz is the full service. Calendar management. Homework help. Teaching basic finances. Chores, routines, real rewards. A wall-mounted hub in the kitchen so the 5-year-old can see her day without asking for a phone.
The kids don't all see the same interface. A 4-year-old needs big tappable tiles. A 14-year-old needs a dense view that feels like a real tool, not a toy. Same data, four different skins. Age picks the UI. The parent doesn't pick a theme.
There's AI inside. It doesn't talk to kids. It helps the parent: parse plain-English chores, rotate fairly, summarize the week, suggest skill-tagged tasks.
No chatbot. No journal data sent anywhere. The kids see chores and rewards, not a robot.
The app runs my own family every day. It's in beta and free while I clean up edge cases and add features. If your house has the same fridge-war energy, try it and tell me what's broken.
I built it because I needed it. I'm keeping it open because other families need it too.
Keino
Dad. Acting CFO. Engineer. Brooklyn.
Real screenshot, real family. The names on this page are my kids.
Try it with your family.
Free during beta. Import a family or start from scratch. Takes five minutes. Your fridge will thank you.