Personal build · 2026
Coop Count
Tap who laid each morning. Coop Count keeps a quiet little book of your backyard flock, then shows you the rhythm of the coop and who is pulling their weight.
Tap who laid each morning. Coop Count keeps a quiet little book of your backyard flock, then shows you the rhythm of the coop and who is pulling their weight.
Built because a clipboard by the coop door keeps getting rained on. So I made the egg book that lives in your pocket.
One small app, three honest jobs: log the morning, read the rhythm, and know your hens.
Walk the coop, tap each hen who laid, and add any eggs you found but cannot pin to a hen. The daily total adds itself up as you go.
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SettingsA gentle chart of eggs over time, a rolling total for the season, and a plain-spoken ranking of who is reliable and who is taking it easy.
Give each hen a name, a breed, and an egg color. Add a photo, or pick one of the painted breed portraits if she will not hold still for a picture.
No account, no app store, no spreadsheet. Add it to your home screen and it opens like a native app.
Name, breed, egg color, and a photo or a painted portrait. It takes a minute per bird.
Each morning, walk the coop and tap. Add any mystery eggs to the unattributed count.
Over the weeks, the chart fills in and the flock sorts itself into reliable and slacking.
An optional touch: paste your own Anthropic API key in Settings and Coop Count will hand your laying numbers to Claude for a warm, plain-English read on the flock. The key lives only on your phone, so the public link is safe to share and every visitor brings their own.
Coop Count is a single HTML file you save to your home screen. Every hen, photo, and egg log lives in your phone's local storage, and nothing is ever uploaded.
The data model is one tidy JSON object: your hens, and a record per hen per day. Photos are shrunk to small avatars before they are saved, so a season of logging stays light. There is no server, so there is nothing to breach and nothing to spam. The optional AI key sits in a settings panel on each person's phone, which keeps the link shareable and gives every user their own quota. A small app, built the way I think small apps should be built: useful first, charming second, and honest about where your data lives.
Open Coop Count, add your flock, and start tapping who laid. By next month you will know exactly who is earning their feed.
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