How Pranked My House

The story

Built with my kids, for my kids.

It started as a silly project. It turned into something genuinely useful.

I made this app with my children, and it has the energy of something built by a family having fun together. You point your phone camera at a room, hit scan, and the app returns a "prank rating" — drawing detection boxes around potential hazards, clutter, and tripping dangers. It's funny. It's also real.

What I didn't expect was how useful it would become for chores. A messy room full of scattered toys fails the prank scan dramatically, and kids respond to that feedback in a way they don't respond to "please clean your room." The gamification isn't artificial — the app is genuinely assessing real risks.

There's something quietly meaningful about the shelter connection too. A clean, safe living space is a foundation of wellbeing. This app makes that tangible, in the most playful way possible.

How Pranked My House is almost ready to publish. I need to finish an iPhone build and make some moderate tweaks to the detection algorithm. It's the next app I'm shipping.

What it does

Features

• 📸
  Camera scan
  Point your camera at any room and scan it in real time.
• 🎯
  Object detection
  The app draws bounding boxes around items flagged as potential prank hazards or tripping risks.
• ⭐
  Prank rating
  Get a score for how prank-ready (or hazard-filled) the room is — a playful but honest assessment.
• 🧹
  Chore motivation
  A messy room fails. A clean room passes. Simple, visual, effective — especially for kids.
• 🔒
  Fully private
  No photos leave your device. The scan runs locally. Nothing is stored or shared.

Coming soon

Almost there.

How Pranked My House is my next release. I'm finishing the iOS build and refining the detection algorithm before publishing. If you want to be notified when it launches, send me a quick email.