Whose turn is it to make toast this week?
That is the whole app. Open it and the answer is already on the screen — no tapping, no scrolling, no logging in. When the toast is made, someone pulls the lever and the rotation moves on.
Built for one family, used on phones, open for about eight seconds at a time.
The name fills the screen. Underneath it, how many turns they have taken and when the last toast was made. Along the bottom, everyone else in the order they come up.
The toaster is the button. Drag the lever down, let go past two thirds, and the slice drops, browns, and pops back up with the next person's initial on it. Keyboard works too — tab to the lever, press Enter, same cycle.
Whoever is standing there can log it. The person who pulls the lever is rarely the person who gets the credit, so the app does not stand in the way.
Nobody made toast this week? Say so, and the rotation waits where it is instead of punishing whoever was up.
Each person marks what they want — up to three slices, each on its own bread, each dressed its own way, plus a short note for anything the toaster cannot say ("no crusts"). Whoever is making it sees one combined list. Tapping anyone in the bottom queue opens their order.
A month calendar with a badge on every day toast happened, and a list of every turn. Rate the toast one to five; everyone gets a vote and the row shows the average. Turns per person this month sit at the top, which settles the other argument.
Start a rotation, send the link. Everyone else opens it, taps their own name, and they are in — no sign-up, no waiting to be approved, nothing typed. Pull the lever on one phone and the others catch up within a second.
Only the person who started it needs an account, and only so a wiped phone cannot take the family's rotation with it.
It is a real installable app. Add it to the home screen and it opens with no browser chrome, portrait, from an icon. On the kitchen dead-spot it still shows whose turn it is, and a turn logged with no signal goes up the moment the phone is back.
The icon, and the maskable one that has to survive a circular crop — iOS takes that padded art too. Both are the slice the app opens with, because they are generated from it rather than drawn again: see docs/setup.md.
- Holiday mode — switch someone off and they are skipped until they are back.
- Reorder by hand — move anyone earlier or later in the rotation.
- More than one rotation — a house and a holiday flat can both be on the phone.
- Honours reduced motion — the animation cuts to the result.
- Every target is thumb-sized and sits where a thumb reaches.
npm install
npm run devSync between phones is optional: with no Firebase keys the app runs local to one phone and fully offline. See docs/setup.md for the keys, the rules and deploying.
React 19 + TypeScript on Vite, plain CSS with custom properties, Firestore for sync, no router and no component library. The toaster is one hand-drawn inline SVG.
The technical documentation lives in docs/:
| docs/architecture.md | How it is put together: the data model, the derived rotation, sync and identity, offline |
| docs/setup.md | Running it, the scripts, Firebase, the security rules, deploying |
| docs/design.md | Tokens, type, the toaster's anatomy and its animation timings |
| docs/prototype.html | The approved design, as one self-contained file. Open it and pull the lever |
| CLAUDE.md | The standing constraints and the decisions behind them |