8 min · +100 XP
Pick YOUR Thing
Choose one small tool from your own life or work.
By the end of this lesson
You'll have chosen the exact thing you're about to build.
Here's a wall of real, small tools people build for themselves — sorted by area of life. Filter to yours and find one that makes you go 'oh, I'd use that'. Pick ONE — and for your very first build, prefer a card marked 'tiny'. Small is the goal.
Click any idea and you get a full walkthrough for THAT tool: the exact right request, the typical wrong one, the mistakes that stop most people, and a tick-as-you-go checklist. Pick, open, build.
Personal budget tracker
Add an expense in two taps; see monthly totals by category and a weekly chart. (The snap-a-receipt version is a Module 8 upgrade.)
Open the guided build →What's-in-the-fridge meals
List what you have; get dinner ideas you can actually make tonight.
Open the guided build →Home inventory & warranties
Photograph your stuff and receipts; search 'where did I put it' and track warranties.
Open the guided build →Trip planner
A route, a budget, and a packing checklist for your next trip — tailored to you.
Open the guided build →Weekly meal plan + shopping list
Plans the week's dinners and spits out the exact grocery list.
Open the guided build →Household chore rota
Fairly splits chores among the family and rotates them weekly.
Open the guided build →Math game for your kid
A tiny game tuned to their age and what they love — space, dinosaurs, whatever.
Open the guided build →Personal bedtime stories
Stories starring your child's name and favourite characters, fresh every night.
Open the guided build →Homework helper
Paste the problem; you and your kid write the solution steps together — and save them by subject to review before tests.
Open the guided build →Kid's reading tracker
Logs minutes read, rewards streaks, keeps your little one going.
Open the guided build →Bank-statement breakdown
Drop in a statement; see exactly where the money actually goes.
Open the guided build →Tax & document organizer
Gathers and sorts your documents and does the boring math for you.
Open the guided build →Subscription hunter
Finds the subscriptions you forgot about and shows what cancelling saves.
Open the guided build →Savings-goal tracker
Set a goal, log deposits, watch a bar fill toward it.
Open the guided build →Meeting notes → action items
Paste raw notes or a transcript; keep a clean editable summary and an action list, ready to send.
Open the guided build →Reply drafts in your voice
Common email replies written in your tone, ready to tweak and send.
Open the guided build →Weekly report autopilot
Builds your recurring report from spreadsheets — automatically, on schedule.
Open the guided build →Long-document summarizer
A contract or manual in, the gist out — with the risky bits flagged.
Open the guided build →Shift / rota scheduler
Builds and shares a fair work schedule without the spreadsheet pain.
Open the guided build →Captions & hashtags
From a rough idea to a post caption tuned for each platform.
Open the guided build →One video → ten posts
Slices a long piece into short clips and posts with hooks.
Open the guided build →Personal content dashboard
Plan, draft and schedule your posts in one little tool you own.
Open the guided build →Newsletter drafter
Turns your week's notes into a ready-to-send email to your audience.
Open the guided build →Habit tracker
Tick the box, watch your streaks grow. Simple, yours, no ads.
Open the guided build →Wellbeing journal
Log how you feel; see patterns over time. (A diary, not a diagnosis.)
Open the guided build →Workout plan for you
A plan built around your goal and whatever equipment you actually have.
Open the guided build →Water & meds tracker
Big tick buttons for water and meds, a today view and a week's history — what's taken, at a glance.
Open the guided build →Flashcards from your notes
Turns your notes into spaced-repetition cards that make things stick.
Open the guided build →Explain it like I'm five
Any hard topic, re-told in plain language until it clicks.
Open the guided build →Language practice buddy
Dialogues and words tuned exactly to your level.
Open the guided build →Exam countdown & study plan
Breaks a big exam into a day-by-day plan that fits your time.
Open the guided build →Client booking page
A simple page where clients pick a slot and book your service.
Open the guided build →Quote / price calculator
Clients (or you) get an instant estimate for your specific service.
Open the guided build →Review collector
Asks happy clients for reviews and gathers them in one place.
Open the guided build →Client auto-answers
Answers the same five questions clients always ask, instantly.
Open the guided build →Simple stock / inventory tracker
Know what you have, what's running low, what to reorder.
Open the guided build →Good. One small, genuinely useful thing. Don't add features in your head — we build the tiniest working version first, then grow it. Open its guided build, or continue to the next lesson and we'll do it together.
Author
Evgeny Arsentyev
PhD · Chief Product Officer at a healthtech company