Every great app has a founding myth. Ours involves ADHD, too much coffee, and a friend who kept losing her shopping lists. Buckle up.
Picture this: a developer, minding their own business, about to start building yet another side project that would inevitably end up abandoned in a GitHub graveyard. Classic Saturday night. But then — a friend intervenes. Not with an intervention. With girl math.
She'd been woken up at 4am by her own brain, spiraling about Post-it notes, shopping lists, and the cosmic injustice of never being able to find that one recipe she saved "somewhere." So she did what any reasonable person does at 4am — she grabbed a piece of paper and designed an entire application. Wireframes. Features. The works. Handed it over like a napkin sketch from a Silicon Valley fever dream.
Now, being the best developer in the world (self-assessed, unverified, do not fact-check this) and, more importantly, a good friend — there was really only one option. Build the thing. That night. So while she finally got to sleep after her 4am brain explosion, guess who was now wide awake at 4am? The irony was not lost on anyone. But by sunrise, boredable existed. Sleep is temporary. Friendship-driven over-engineering is forever.
At its core, boredable is aggressively simple. You make categories. You put stuff in categories. You find stuff later. That's it. That's the whole elevator pitch. We'd make it shorter but the elevator is already at your floor.
The twist is you get to define what each category tracks. Need a "regret level" rating on your impulse purchases? A "would my therapist approve" checkbox? A "price I told my partner vs. actual price" field? Build whatever chaotic system your brain needs. We won't ask questions.
Let's be real. This app was built for one specific friend. If you're reading this and you're not that friend, you've somehow stumbled into something very personal and we're a little embarrassed. But also, welcome? Make yourself at home. The categories are free and the vibes are immaculate.
If you relate to any of the following, you might be our people:
Every startup page has a team section with professional headshots and titles like "Chief Visionary Officer." We don't have that. We have one person wearing every hat simultaneously.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. This app has server-side rendering, a full authentication system with session management, CSRF protection, rate limiting, a proper SQL database with an ORM and migrations, input validation, and security headers.
It's used by approximately three people to track shopping lists and recipe bookmarks.
Is this the engineering equivalent of bringing a flamethrower to a birthday candle? Yes. Do we regret it? Not even a little bit. Every shopping list deserves enterprise-grade infrastructure. Your "Snacks I Deserve" category is protected by the same security patterns used by actual companies. You're welcome.
OK, jokes aside for a second. The real reason boredable exists is because most productivity apps make you feel bad for not being productive enough. They have streaks, and gamification, and push notifications guilt-tripping you into "staying on track."
boredable doesn't do any of that. It doesn't care if you haven't opened it in three weeks. It won't send passive-aggressive reminders. It just sits there, patiently holding your stuff, ready for whenever your brain decides to be organized for 15 minutes. No judgment. No streaks. Just a quiet little app that believes in you even when you don't believe in yourself.
...OK, sincerity over. Back to the jokes.
You just read an entire about page for a shopping list app. That's either dedication or procrastination. Either way, you should probably sign up now.
Fine, you've convinced meNo commitment. No guilt. Just vibes.