Show HN: Chickadee Bandit – Build private apps for your family

Chickadee Bandit is a platform for building and installing private, household-specific apps. It provides a curated library plus an AI assistant that converts short natural-language requests into working apps and installs them on a household hub after user confirmation. Apps run against a household-private database and the hub enforces rules like one-vote-per-person; some apps read household member names/roles and persist data, others save nothing. Every listed app was hand-checked and trialed by the team, and installing one reruns those checks in your household. Users can also download an app’s code to inspect exactly what it does. Setting up requires a household, an admin account, and an assistant that speaks the platform protocol; client apps run on iPhone, Android, and a wall display.

Examples show the practical specifics: Campaign Night schedules tabletop sessions, proposes dates, tracks hosts/snacks, runs an initiative tracker and saves session recaps. Thermostat Wars lets members report temperatures, vote on a suspect with one vote enforced, record pleas and keep a conviction tally. Who Does the Dishes? presents a spinner that respects who’s home and can be made deliberately deterministic for a given name. A playful Daily Dispatch cycles clickbait headlines that all open the same music video. Each app notes what household data it reads and whether it stores anything.