StarQuest

Every family reinvents the same wheel: a chore chart on the fridge, a jar of coins, an allowance nobody's quite tracking. I wanted one thing my kids could actually run themselves — on a tablet we already had — that made doing chores feel like a game instead of a nag.

The chart is a grid: each chore is a row, each day of the week a column. A kid taps a square and drops a sticker to mark a chore done. Every chore is worth points, and each kid has one running balance that carries over week to week and never resets.

They spend that balance in a rewards store you set up — "30 minutes of screen time," say — or you pay it out as real allowance, logged with a full history. Chores in, points up; rewards out, points down.

Families are different, so the framing is yours to pick. Scoring can show as plain points, as a named currency you invent ("Star Bucks," one per so many points), or as real cash that builds toward payday. Under the hood it's always just points — the mode only changes how the balance reads.

Four color themes and a light, dark, or follow-the-device mode round it out.

StarQuest is an installable web app that runs on whatever device the family already has — no special hardware. It's multi-tenant, so every household gets its own private account, and it syncs to the cloud so nothing is lost and it works across devices. It's built on React, Supabase, and TypeScript, under my software company, McNamara Co.