Ebenstone’s own product · Families
A one-year reading plan a whole household follows together.
GoTherefore keeps a family on the same Bible reading plan for a year. Everyone can see where the others are, a short quiz confirms the reading happened, and a missed day has a way back.
The phone from the top of gotherefore.app. The household is the page’s own example.
Visit gotherefore.app- What it is
- A web app for a household reading the Bible in a year
- Who it’s for
- Families, with accounts for children
- Status
- Private beta, ahead of a public launch
- Web address
- gotherefore.app
The problem
A year-long reading plan is easy for a family to start and hard to keep going.
Reading the Bible in a year takes a few minutes a day for twelve months. Most families who start are no longer doing it by spring.
- 1Someone misses three days and quietly stops.Being behind feels like having failed.
- 2The person who suggested it becomes the person nagging about it.Nobody can see where anyone else is without asking.
- 3Nobody is sure whether the kids read the passage.Or only said they did.
- 4A family’s reading and results are private.A product for households holds children’s activity, and it has to stay inside the household.
Why it was built
Why Ebenstone built it
GoTherefore began with one household that set out to read the Bible in a year together. The reading was not the hard part. Keeping a whole family on the same plan for twelve months was, and the product is built around that.
Churches and publishers can add to it later. The household comes first and gets the whole product.
How each problem was solved
How GoTherefore solves each one
1The problem
Someone misses three days and quietly stops.
What Ebenstone built
A missed day has a way back.
Each missed day gets a catch-up path, so being behind doesn’t mean starting over or giving up.
2The problem
The person who suggested it becomes the person nagging about it.
What Ebenstone built
Everyone can see where everyone is.
The whole house follows the same plan, and each person’s week is visible to the others. A streak makes the habit visible enough to protect.
3The problem
Nobody is sure whether the kids read the passage.
What Ebenstone built
A short quiz confirms the reading.
Each passage has a quiz. Passing one earns points toward rewards a parent chooses, so encouragement has something concrete behind it.
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4The problem
A family’s reading and results are private.
What Ebenstone built
Each household’s records are kept apart.
No household can see another’s. That boundary was part of the design from the first version, and a new feature stays switched off until it is ready.
Children sign in with a PIN a parent sets. No email address.
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Each picture recreates GoTherefore’s screens, with an invented household.
Where it stands
In private beta, ahead of a public launch.
It is built against a written design: decision records, a map of the code, and numbered database changes. Client projects get the same discipline.
What carries over to your project
- Software a whole family, or a whole team, uses together
- Each customer’s records kept separate from every other’s
- New features that stay off until they are ready
Have a problem like this one?
A habit or a process that people start and can’t keep going.
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