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Myeiyo
The thing they want, earned for real.
A chores-and-rewards app for families with teenagers. A kid points at something real they want, the family agrees on the work together, and when the work is done and approved the actual thing is earned — not a coin, not a badge.
The thinking
The reward is the real thing. Not a coin, not a streak.
Who it's for
Parents and teenagers who want a fair, low-drama way to connect real effort to a real reward. Built to respect teenagers: no mascots, no confetti, no points pretending to be money.
Why it exists
Apps for kids and chores tend to fall into two camps, and we did not like living in either. One hands a ten-year-old a debit card and a balance and calls it literacy — teaching that the point is the number. The other turns chores into a game of coins, streaks, and leaderboards that everyone knows is not real. Both skip the thing that actually happens in a house: a teenager wants something specific, a parent is open to a deal, and the whole transaction lives or dies on whether the deal feels fair to both of them. Myeiyo is built around that moment and almost nothing else.
How it works
A teenager adds the thing they want. The family turns it into a set of chores, weighted together so the weights sum to exactly one hundred — which forces an honest conversation about what each piece of work is actually worth. The teenager does the chores and submits a photo. The parent approves each one, or sends it back with a note, which is coaching rather than rejection. When every chore is approved, the reward is earned and the parent is prompted to buy the real thing. One reward at a time, per family, on purpose.
Where AI fits in
There is almost no AI in Myeiyo, and that was a decision, not an oversight. A contract two people can both see, photo proof, an approval step, an append-only record of what happened — those are problems a careful schema solves better than any model. The one place we expect to add a model is bounded and defensive: screening submitted photos for things that should not be in them. Even that we would rather get right slowly than ship fast.
Closing note
Real work, real proof, a real reward — one at a time.
Myeiyo is in beta. A teenager points at something they want; the family agrees on the work, weighted to sum to one hundred; proof is submitted and approved; the actual thing is earned. One reward at a time, per family, on purpose.