The Manifesto

We believe your home should feel lighter, not heavier, the more you own.

Most of us accumulate things gradually — a tool here, a keepsake there, boxes that follow us from apartment to apartment. At some point we stop knowing exactly what we have, where it is, or what condition it's in. The mental weight of “I think it's somewhere” builds quietly.

We built Stuff because we wanted a way to offload that weight. Not by getting rid of things — we love things — but by giving them a second home: a calm, searchable, beautiful digital archive that remembers so you don't have to.

Cataloguing should feel like care, not data entry.

We spent a long time making sure that adding an item to Stuff Tracker feels good. Snap a photo. The AI suggests a name and description. Drop it into a container or location. Done. It takes seconds, and the result is something you'd actually want to look at.

Every photo can be restyled by AI into consistent, catalog-quality imagery. Not because it needs to be — but because beauty matters. When your archive looks good, you use it. When you use it, it works.

No gamification. No social feed. No noise.

Stuff will never send you a push notification telling you to “complete your inventory streak.” There are no leaderboards, no sharing prompts, no engagement loops. This is a tool, not a platform. It exists to serve you quietly and get out of the way.

We believe software can be opinionated without being loud. Beautiful without being distracting. Powerful without being complicated.

Your data is yours.

Everything in Stuff can be exported. Your photos, your metadata, your entire history. We don't believe in data lock-in. If you leave, you take everything with you. That's a promise, not a feature.

Built for households, not individuals.

A home isn't one person. Stuff supports multiple members with different permissions — an admin who manages everything, a partner who adds and edits, a helper who can view but not delete. Everyone sees the same archive. Everyone contributes to the same memory.

Start with one drawer.

You don't have to catalog your entire life in a weekend. Start with one drawer. One shelf. One room. The archive grows at your pace. There's no finish line — just a system that gets more useful the more you put into it.

That's the promise of Stuff: your life is physical, but your memory doesn't have to be.