FolkKeep.

Why this project

FolkKeep is a personal CRM for keeping your people close.

There are four children in my family. Some of siblings have children of their own. I have friends that I’ve known for years. But often I find myself forgetting birthdays or important updates from their lives. I wanted to build an app for myself to keep track of this. Addtionally, since this app will have the record of my whole family, I wanted to have the option of viewing my family tree.

Learning from my previous experience I decided that the app should be free, after all CRMs is an over saturated market, and a subscription doesn’t make sense. So I designed it with the idea that I will not spend infrastructure costs if possible - and store all data locally, allowing syncing across devices for a fee.

Where it stands

FolkKeep is in development. Currently preparing it for launch on the AppStore. This time I also decided to launch (and develop) on Android and web.

Lessons learned

Notes from building FolkKeep are coming soon.