What we've been building

• Each property can keep its own service contacts: who to call first for the furnace, the septic, or the roof, with a dated log of the work they have done. It is in preview, and a family admin can ask for it to be turned on.
• A weekly digest email gathers what happened in your family since the last one, from new posts and photos to newly booked stays. A quiet week sends nothing, and you can turn it off from your profile.
• Any member can suggest someone to invite. A family admin sees the suggestion and sends the invitation once they approve it.

• You can message a family admin privately. Pick an admin, write your note, and go back and forth in a thread only the two of you can see. A family admin switches it on from the Family page.
• The dashboard holds each widget’s space while it loads, so the page no longer jumps under your finger as the weather and your next reservation arrive.
• An emailed invitation now closes itself out when the person joins through a share link instead, rather than sitting open forever.

• Your booking turn appears in the app the moment it opens, not only in an email. If your mail is filtered or bouncing, you still find out.
• A saved booking season shows a card for each year with the real dates, whose turn it is right now, and the pick order in plain language.
• When a family member cannot book yet because they are in no picking group, the app says so instead of leaving them to work it out.
• Moving someone into a picking group warns you first if it would empty another group.
• Accepting an emailed invitation signs you straight in, with no second trip through the login form to retype the password you just chose.

• A dark theme, with a setting on your Profile page for light, dark, or whatever your device is already using.
• Invite a family into your community with a link. They see whose community it is, how many families are in it, and what joining means, then confirm.
• A family can leave a community and land in a private space of its own, keeping its properties, calendar, photos, and booking rules.
• A pending invitation gets a reminder on day three and day seven, reusing the original link so nothing new has to be sent.
• A family admin can see when an invite bounced and fix the address, instead of the invitation looking healthy while nobody received it.
• Password rules show as a checklist that fills in as you type.
• A property’s features show on its card, so you can see what is switched on without opening Edit.

• Booking rules with selection groups and recurring seasons. Families take turns picking, the order rotates each year, and nobody has to remember whose turn it was last summer.
• Pricing, payments, and the settings that belong to a single property all gathered under Properties, instead of scattered across the app.
• Feature teasers, so a family admin can see what is available and ask for it.

• Every family gets a private space of its own, with its own properties, calendar, photos, and rules. A cabin, a compound, an inherited house, or a community of cottages all work the same way.
• Feature hints that point out functionality people were walking past, managed by an admin rather than hardcoded.
• Pick where you land after signing in, so the app opens on the page you actually use.
• A reservation records who changed it last.
• Someone invited by email who already has an account skips the signup form and simply joins.

• Choose which kinds of activity are worth an email to you. Comments, new posts, photo albums, and group requests are each their own switch.
• A dashboard you can arrange, with tiles you can dismiss when they stop being useful.
• A wind forecast for the week, for anyone whose plans depend on the weather.

• Per-property pricing, with projected revenue for families who rent out their weeks.
• Opening, closing, and check-in procedures, kept where everyone can find them instead of in a binder in a drawer.
• A vendors directory with reviews, so the plumber who actually shows up is written down somewhere.
• A QR code that opens a property’s procedures, for taping inside a cupboard door.
• Calendar feeds you can subscribe to, so the place shows up in the calendar app you already use.
• Roles that mean something. An admin has to switch into edit mode on purpose, and a property admin only manages the properties they were given.
• Reservations lock once their month has passed, so the record of who stayed when stays honest.

Everything below grew out of that first version, which is why the earliest entries here predate the name.

• A shared reservation calendar, with every property on it and a date picker built for claiming a week rather than booking a hotel room.
• Posts with comments and reactions, so news about the place has somewhere to live that is not a group text.
• Shared photo albums, with a season’s pictures kept together.
• Who’s Here This Week, on the dashboard.
• Local weather, on the same dashboard.
• A family’s space is private. You get in by invitation.
• Email notifications, and a reminder before a stay.