MitchellOS is a private web application I’m building for my own family. It keeps track of the things that usually slip: birthdays and anniversaries, gift ideas, small gestures worth repeating, and the steady stream of email from schools and activities.
It started as a personal dashboard for me alone. Once my wife saw what it could do for our family’s calendar, it grew into something for all of us.
It’s a work in progress, and deliberately so. I’m building it with AI assistance, one feature at a time, and letting real use decide what gets built next rather than planning it all up front.
The real reason for the project is learning. It runs entirely on Cloudflare, and building it has meant getting properly acquainted with Workers, SQLite at the edge, object storage, scheduled jobs, inbound email routing, and identity-based access control. Naturally, a lot of that I’d never touched before. Renaming it from JeffOS (the personal dashboard) to MitchellOS meant migrating every database, storage bucket, and domain behind it, which taught me more than the original build did.
The goal is a custom application with real intelligence in it. Not a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard, but AI doing useful work quietly in the background: reading inbound email, surfacing what actually needs attention, and helping with the planning I’m not naturally good at. Getting there first meant building something stable, secure, and backed up, so there’s a foundation worth putting intelligence on top of.