About Buhata

I built this because I was tired of planning

Nobody’s going to out-build the big productivity companies, and I’m not trying to. What I noticed is that almost all of them are built for businesses and teams, and there’s a reason for that: households don’t pay like companies do. So the household ends up using tools designed for a project team, priced for a project team, or free and stuffed with ads until they’re unusable.

I went through a lot of them. Every few months I’d find something simple and good, and then the price would jump, or the free tier would fill with advertising, or the thing I actually used would move behind a plan built for a twelve-person marketing department.

The part I’m less proud of: The apps worked. I made plans in them. I built out game plans, projections, the whole thing. Then I’d look at hours of careful planning every month and still not feel like doing any of it. Dili gihapon ko motivated mutrabaho. The planning had quietly become the work.

I procrastinate. I know that about myself. What I didn’t want was to keep paying for features designed for somebody with a team, in order to keep not doing the things I had written down.

So the app has one bias

Buhata is built around the step everyone skips. A list records what you meant to do. A plan shows how it could go. Neither one moves. So the app is arranged so that the doing is closer to hand than the arranging: your money, your tasks, your groceries, the family, the health things, all on one day, in one place, with one login.

It’s deliberately not an integrations product either. Every connector is a monthly bill that everybody pays whether or not they use it, and it would land in a price meant for a household. You type it or you say it, and it stays in your own account.

What it isn’t

Buhata isn’t a business tool wearing a friendly face, and the free plan is a real plan rather than a demo that expires the week it becomes useful. There are no ads in it. I would rather charge honestly for the paid tiers than sell your attention to somebody else.

Where it’s made

Company

Buhata LLC, Florida

Run from

Pensacola

Team

Small, remote, mostly overseas

Stage

Early

You can read how we work in Culture at Buhata, what we offer the people who work on it in Benefits, and what’s open right now in Careers.