FamilyYak
Everything your family needs, organized by stage
A comprehensive family life management app that guides parents from pre-conception planning through young adulthood. Combines curated stage-based checklists, AI-powered personalized insights, household collaboration tools, and personal growth tracking into one integrated platform.
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Highlights
- • 9 life stages with 32 topics and 196 curated checklist items covering health, safety, finances, and development
- • AI-powered insights via Claude that personalize suggestions based on each child's age, household location, and family interests
- • Full mobile app built with React Native and Expo with complete feature parity to the web app
- • Shared household management with partner invitations, task lists, and iCal calendar sync
- • Decision Points — age-gated discussion guides that help couples align on topics like sleep training, daycare, and school philosophy
- • Personal Growth Tracker with stage-aware self-care, mental health, fitness, and career goals
- • Monorepo architecture with shared GraphQL queries, TypeScript interfaces, and design tokens across web and mobile
Details
FamilyYak was born from the realization that every family's needs change dramatically as children grow. Rather than overwhelming parents with generic advice, FamilyYak surfaces exactly what matters at each life stage. The backend is built with C# and .NET 9 using Hot Chocolate for GraphQL, backed by PostgreSQL via Supabase. The frontend spans a React web app and a React Native mobile app sharing a core package of GraphQL operations and TypeScript types. AI features use Anthropic's Claude API — Haiku for recommendations and Sonnet for deeper insights — with rate limiting and cost monitoring through PostHog. The entire platform is designed for households, with role-based access, shared task lists, calendar integration, and collaborative decision-making tools.