Pick two people
Once, at setup. The two you would actually call. They do not need the app and they never see anyone else's list.
You know the bit. Sign says ten items or less, the man behind the register decides today is the day, and you are alone in it. HomeGrrl is the app from that sketch. Tap the phone, request one, watch her accept.
One email. No app store yet, because there is no app yet.
It works. Press Request.
Nothing dramatic. That is the point of her. She is not security and she is not a lawyer. She is a second person, which changes the arithmetic of the situation on its own.
Nobody is dispatching strangers to your grocery store. The joke stays a joke. Underneath it there is a small real thing worth building, and it is what the waitlist is for.
Once, at setup. The two you would actually call. They do not need the app and they never see anyone else's list.
One button, held for two seconds so a pocket cannot fire it. Both of them get where you are and one line: come now.
Location sharing stops on your tap or after an hour, whichever is first. We keep no history of what happened, because we do not want it.
The HomeGrrl bit is from That Damn Michael Che, the sketch series that ran on HBO Max in 2021, and it came back around this year as a format people rebuild on TikTok. The phone screens on this site were rebuilt frame by frame from one of those videos, down to the pink, the mint blocks and the fist pins.
We are not affiliated with the show, the network, or any of the creators who made a version. If you own one of those clips and want the reference pulled, write to hey@homegrrl.app and it comes down the same day.