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Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

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Post by fanieldanara »

Hi HN!

I've spent the last few months building HomeSheet - The all in one tool to track your personal assets. I built HomeSheet to make organizing and documenting my belongings a breeze. I've always wanted to put together a home inventory to protect myself in the event of a disaster, but I never found a solution that I liked.

Right now HomeSheet is in early access, and I'm still working on determining what additional features users would like. I'll be around in the comments if you have any feedback, questions, or just want to say hi!

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Post by open-paren »

I've only read the landing page, but I'm instantly very interested in this. I've recently been looking for a product or solution just like this as part of my emergency preparedness goals.

Some questions:

1) I know that homesheet.co is currently free, but what are you considering for pricing options?

2) What are my data export options? No offense, but products on HN are a dime-a-dozen and this is the kind of data that I don't want to lose if you get too busy to work on the product.

I'd love to see encryption included as a feature. I know you say that you don't sell the data and that it's "mine", but I want to make it impossible for you, since privacy policy can change at any time.

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Post by Nouser76 »

One interesting use case to me would be cataloguing features of an item you own. When you are dealing with insurance, they will reimburse you for a product of like kind and quality. For example, if you have an older consumer stand mixer that uses metal gearing instead of plastic gears (like lots of modern consumer stand mixers), then they might be forced to give you a check to buy a commercial stand mixer that does have metal gears. Adding more features typically means you will get a better payout to replace it - you get Venn diagrams of functionality that only an expensive replacement will fully cover.

I'd love to put in a product code and import functionalities of that product. The data integrity and seeding might be tricky to pull off, but it'd become extremely valuable for anyone going through insurance.

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Post by candiddevmike »

Looks interesting, too bad it's SaaS only? Kudos on the no ads bit though. If you're looking for something that can be self hosted, checkout snipe-it: https://snipeitapp.com/

For a more all-in-one household data solution that can also be self hosted, checkout Homechart: https://homechart.app.

I would be interested in working with you (contact info is in my profile).

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Post by HALtheWise »

I've been using a simple Google Sheet to track my personal inventory for a while now, and have basically all of my rarely-used possessions indexed. The biggest benefit is that I need to put way less effort into having a "sensible" organization scheme, since I can just throw something into "Tub D" and not worry about being able to find it later.

The one key tip I'd recommend is setting up your system to resolve nested containers. For example, Tub D itself might be in your coat closet. It doesn't look like this system is really set up for that, although my use case is also quite different than what it's targeting with insurance.

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Post by lkxijlewlf »

This looks interesting. I have a question to those who use it.

I work from home and I have a good bit of stuff from my work (RFID readers, LIDAR, computers, web relays, etc) that I want to catalogue in case something happens to me and my SO needs to differentiate between what is ours and what is works. Would this be a good piece of software to do that?

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