Omar’s homework-inbox
The problem
Homework for a single week is scattered across a school planner, a few different teachers' handouts, and memory, so it is easy to lose track of what is actually due first, especially once several subjects pile up at once.
The solution
Homework Inbox pulls every subject into one due-date-sorted list, colour-coded by subject, with an optional setting that only messages a parent if something is still not marked done by its due time, rather than nagging constantly.
Monetisation service
Free for a single student account. A £2.49/month family plan adds multiple children under one parent view and a weekly summary email, aimed at parents managing more than one child's homework.
Minimum projected ARR
Omar’s story
Omar's own homework problem was not forgetting to do it, it was forgetting which subject was due when, since every teacher hands things out differently and it all has to live in one head. Homework Inbox is his attempt to put every subject's due dates in exactly one place.
In the Make It a Real App phase, Omar focused on the single list view: colour bars per subject, clear due-today versus due-later states, and an opt-in parent notification that only fires if something is genuinely late rather than as a constant reminder. He used AI to help build the interface while keeping the actual rules of when to notify a parent his own decision.
He found that the hardest design choice was restraint: an early version notified a parent every single day an item was open, and it took user testing on his own family to realise that felt like nagging rather than help, which is why the final version only notifies once something is overdue.
What Omar’s parent thinks
“TBC”
— Saiful Islam