What's Coming
HausFlow Family launched with a focus on one thing: making the parent → kid chore loop actually work. Assign, notify, complete, approve, repeat. That core loop is live and working.
Everything below is what we're building next — in order of priority, not promise.
Near Term
These are the features closest to shipping or actively being designed.
Reward Catalog
Parents will be able to define redeemable rewards — extra screen time, a special outing, a small cash equivalent, or anything else the family agrees on. Kids spend banked points on rewards from the catalog. Parents approve the redemption.
This closes the loop: points accumulate → kid redeems → parent approves. Right now points track but don't have a formal redemption path.
Smarter Recurring Chores
Beyond day-of-week scheduling, we want to support patterns like "every other week", "first Monday of the month", or "rotate between kids". The current scheduler handles simple repeating days but not rotation or intervals.
Return-to-Kid Notifications
When a parent sends a chore back with a note, the kid should get a push notification explaining why. Currently they'll see it next time they open the app, but there's no immediate alert.
Medium Term
These are features that require more design work or depend on the near-term pieces landing first.
Allowance Integration
An optional allowance layer tied to point totals — configurable rate (e.g. $0.05 per point), pay period, and ledger. For families who want points to mean something financial rather than just redeemable.
Multi-Household Support
Blended families and co-parenting arrangements often have kids moving between homes. Supporting multiple household memberships — where a kid's task list and point balance follows them — is on the roadmap but requires significant architecture work.
In-App Rewards History
A full timeline showing every approved chore, point award, and reward redemption for each kid. Right now parents can see current status; the full history view is coming.
Weekly Family Summary
A Sunday recap notification for parents showing the week's completed chores, total points awarded per kid, and any tasks still pending. The notification preference is already in settings — the summary generation is next.
Longer Term
These are things we believe in but haven't started building yet.
Insight Layer
Patterns over time — which chores consistently come back, which kids have more completions on certain days, whether point values are motivating or not. Not a scoreboard, not pressure. Just visibility that helps parents calibrate the system.
Sibling Fairness View
A simple view showing whether chore assignments are balanced across kids — total points available, difficulty distribution, completion rates. Useful for larger families or when one kid consistently has more on their plate.
Partner and Co-Parent Features
Currently HausFlow Family is built for a household with one parent shell. Families with two active parents both wanting to assign and review need a real co-parent experience — shared review queue, notification routing, or divided responsibilities.
What We're Not Building
To be clear about scope:
- Not a parental control app. HausFlow Family coordinates chores. It does not monitor screen time, location, or any activity outside the app.
- Not a behavior tracker. Points represent completed chores, not general good or bad behavior. There is no behavior score, streak pressure, or punishment system.
- Not a surveillance tool. Photo proof is about chore clarity, not checking up on kids beyond what they submit themselves.
- Not a social network. No public profiles, no comparison between families, no leaderboards.
How We Decide What to Build Next
We prioritize by what makes the core coordination loop more reliable and more useful for real families. Features that reduce friction, close open loops, or give families more control over how the system works for them come first.
Complexity for its own sake does not.
Have a feature request? Email us at info@mavarosystems.com