SAL Home
A home management PWA built in a single evening — no Figma, no desk, mostly from my phone. My wife and I own a 150-year-old farmhouse and keeping track of projects, contractors, and maintenance was a mess. So I built something. It was live the next morning.
A working PWA — projects, budgets, maintenance tracking, schedule, wish list — live in under 12 hours. Built with Next.js 16, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, Supabase, and Google Auth. No Figma file. No design brief. Just a problem I was tired of having and a Sunday night to fix it.
ROLE
Designer, Developer, User
CLIENT
Personal
TIMELINE
< 12 hours
YEAR
2026
Team
A 150-year-old farmhouse, no shared system, and projects that kept piling up.
My wife and I own a farmhouse that keeps us busy. Seasonal upkeep, contractor bids, aging infrastructure — something always needs attention. The problem wasn't the work itself. It was the organization of our ideas around us — scattered across emails, saved contacts, mental notes, and conversations that never made it anywhere permanent. We each had half the picture. We'd tried spreadsheets. They work fine until they don't — too much friction to keep updated, impossible on a phone, and way too easy to forget. I wanted something we'd actually use.
No Figma, No Problem.
Conceptualized, Designed, and Deployed — In Use.
Within 12 hours, this app went from a concept on the couch with my wife to a working application we both now use. The real goal was to test a week's worth of research and skills — working with AI, reviewing fast, getting real concepts out the door. SAL Home proved that the design process doesn't require a desk or a Figma file. The thinking travels.
I'm realizing I'm working less in Figma and working directly with Claude through everything — from the color palette, to the user journey, to tweaking the UI. All of this was done through Claude and mostly my mobile device.
“Removing Figma from the workflow didn't remove design — it just moved it into conversation.”
This was a great project for me to test workflows, skills, and iterating with Claude. Working this way is becoming more a part of my daily obligations in my role — and SAL Home is the result of those learnings applied to something I actually needed. A responsive, progressive web app built the way I now build everything.
