Rosey began with a grocery list — a problem most households know intimately. Lists vanished in the gap between two phones. Apple Reminders quietly overwrote itself, reverting to whatever version one partner had edited offline. The solution that became Rosey was deceptively simple: one phone number anyone in the household could text, that simply remembered.
Once it could remember groceries, everything else followed naturally. The wifi password. The pediatrician's number. The usual Trader Joe's haul. What the plumber said he'd come back to fix. Each addition pointed to the same larger idea: Rosey wasn't a list app — it was the household's context layer. The quiet keeper of the shared, unglamorous facts, so that neither person had to be the one who always remembered.
The bot is named after Rosey from The Jetsons: the family robot who quietly kept the household running, long before "AI assistant" became a category.
Questions, ideas, or trouble?
hello@rosey.family.
Or text the bot /feedback followed by your message — it'll
reach the maintainers either way.
Rosey is built by Ankit Tandon based on the open source project on GitHub; anyone can fork, customize, and run their own. Contributions back are welcome too.