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Wichita Housing Logistics

An internal operations app for housing case managers — Intake → Assessment → Placement → Follow-up. Built as a competition submission for Groover Labs.

Submission snapshot · archived April 2026.

What it replaces

A case manager in Wichita tracks fifteen households on a legal pad, a shared Google Sheet that nobody trusts, and a group text with three coordinators. When a landlord calls asking "did the family get the keys?" nobody can answer without a round of "let me check and call you back." Beds sit empty because the person holding them didn't tell the person doing assessments. Families fall out of follow-up because there's no view that says "moved in 14 days ago, check on them."

What it is

One URL. Four stages with real counters and a live activity feed. Add a household, assign a bed, post a note. That is the whole app. No accounts to provision, no implementation consultant, no quarterly product roadmap. It runs on Cloudflare's edge with a single database; hosting cost is pocket change.

The one novel piece

Every household carries a private share_token. The URL /case/<token> is both the address and the authentication — whoever holds the link reads their own case in plain language ("you're moved in," "we're holding a spot for you") and sends messages back to the case team. No app install. No password reset. No portal. The relationship changes when the family can see what the case manager sees.

Pilot-scope tradeoffs (rate limiting, log redaction, recovery flow) are documented in the repository's CLAUDE.md under "Customer lane".

What's in the box

See it