Micasa
Home project tracker in Productivity & writing
Free terminal app for tracking home projects and documents in one SQLite file, praised for clean design and easy backup. Caveat: the terminal interface may not suit non-technical household members.
Free terminal app for tracking home projects and documents in one SQLite file, praised for clean design and easy backup. Caveat: the terminal interface may not suit non-technical household members.
50 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 45
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 45 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clean, intuitive design
“Clean design and intuitive UI that shows me everything I'd be looking for in this type of app.”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “I love the way this looks and the concept behind it”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “most beautiful homepage + docs combo I’ve ever seen”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” - Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal”
Single file, easy backup
“cp micasa.db backup.db backs up everything – no sidecar files”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “"Single SQLite file, no cloud" is the right call.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” Practical for home tracking
“This is awesome, love the sense of humor and just downloaded it and started adding data.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “Great project and very practical use-case.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “This is pretty cool and useful.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” Fun tone and humor
“This is awesome, love the sense of humor and just downloaded it and started adding data.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “Pretty slick! And I really enjoyed the interactive, destructible house at the top”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Terminal unsuitable for non-technical users
“This is basically what I want, but with a UI that non-techie spouse wouldn’t mind using.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “I like this TUI aesthetic, but I'm not sure I could use it on a daily basis”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “My wife uses Trello. She would likely not use terminal.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” - Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal”
Duplicates existing tools
“not having yet another piece of software duplicating an existing thing”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal” “It seems pretty unnecessary.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal”
What people said
36 of the 51 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I'd have used micasa if I was rolling solo”
“It seems pretty unnecessary.”
“Clean design and intuitive UI that shows me everything I'd be looking for in this type of app.”
“Love the idea, agree with most of the feedback here.”
“seeing a project that uses AI to produce features of this standard is great to see”
“Great project and very practical use-case.”
“The PDF-to-structured-data piece is actually the killer feature here.”
“My wife uses Trello. She would likely not use terminal.”
“can't seem to find a way to sum the columns in the TUI”
“"Single SQLite file, no cloud" is the right call.”
“This is amazing and exactly the problem we have been trying to solve with a friend.”
“This is pretty cool and useful.”
“it would be entirely useless for my needs”
“Being able to launch it with: nix run github:cpcloud/micasa Is super convenient.”
“This is awesome, love the sense of humor and just downloaded it and started adding data.”
“it seems to just take you to edit the entire project, with no way to edit docs”
“Nice. I would definitely consider making it locale sensitive.”
“My only pushback is using sqlite.”
“It is a cool piece of work nonetheless.”
“I wouldn’t want to use a terminal-only tool with no affordances for cloud sync”
“most beautiful homepage + docs combo I’ve ever seen”
“I love the way this looks and the concept behind it”
“I love the logo, go ahead and click it!”
“I love the design on this”
“not having yet another piece of software duplicating an existing thing”
“I like this TUI aesthetic, but I'm not sure I could use it on a daily basis”
“I do things in my house too infrequently that I don't want to have to re-learn the UI of a tool again and again.”
“This is basically what I want, but with a UI that non-techie spouse wouldn’t mind using.”
“This looks so much better than most project/product management tools out there.”
“cp micasa.db backup.db backs up everything – no sidecar files”
“This looks awesome but I think I might still prefer to have an agent make these changes.”
“Heck yeah! Love the VisiData shoutout.”
“Looks really cool. Agree on comments related to TUI. Maybe a simple interface running locally would be better.”
“Looks good - I like the TUI a lot.”
“This is looking pretty good.”
“Pretty slick! And I really enjoyed the interactive, destructible house at the top”
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