Why Doorpost
We're building the family hub
for Christian homes.
One source of truth for the calendar, the schoolroom, the chore board, and the Scripture rhythm — built from the ground up for families who take Deuteronomy 6 seriously.
The founding conviction
Built from a conviction,
not a market gap.
Most family-planning software assumes a secular default. The events are neutral, the chore rewards are gamified, and the "school" module was built for a classroom of thirty, not a kitchen table of four. Homeschool families patch together four or six tools — calendar here, grading there, a co-op Slack, a verse-of-the-day app, a chore chart pinned to the refrigerator. None of them talk to each other, and none of them were built for a family that treats Scripture as the organizing principle of the day.
Doorpost exists because that fragmentation is unnecessary. Calendar, chores, school records, Scripture rhythm, and, in time, a private community of church families can all live in one product — and that product can be built to reflect the convictions of the families using it rather than apologizing for them.
The name comes from Deuteronomy 6:6–9, where Moses commands the Israelites to write God's words on the doorposts of their houses. That command has always been about the household as a place of formation — not just shelter, but school, sanctuary, and daily practice. That's what we're trying to build: a tool worthy of the doorpost.
“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
What we won't build
Principles aren't marketing. They're the short list of things we've decided to refuse before the pressure to add them arrives.
We won't gamify obedience.
Nothing to buy, no premium monsters, no quest economies for children. Chores are work; work is its own lesson. The only rewards in Doorpost are the ones parents set — screen time, outings, cash — because the points should come back to the home, not to a publisher.
We won't sell your family's data.
We share family information only with the services that run Doorpost — sign-in, email, storage and, when a parent turns AI features on, our AI provider — and never for advertising. The privacy policy lists each one. There are no advertising partners, no behavioral data pipelines, no “aggregate and anonymize” carve-outs. No ads. Ever.
We won't pretend the secular default is neutral.
The secular default has a worldview; it just doesn't announce it. Doorpost is a Christian-first product — Scripture is woven through the product, not bolted on as an optional theme. Families who want a plain calendar app are well-served elsewhere.
We won't build features that compete with the Sabbath.
No streaks that punish rest. Chores clear on the Sabbath with a quiet note rather than piling up as failures. By default you get one morning summary email and a few parent alerts, not constant pings. If the product trains families to check it compulsively, it has failed.
We won't lock the essentials behind a paywall.
The family hub — calendar, chores, school records, Wall Mode, Scripture rhythm — is free. A paid church-circle tier is planned, because it will cost money to run well. A family that can't afford it still deserves the tool.
Who's behind it
Built for our own family
first.
Built by Joshua Parise, a homeschool dad and software engineer who got tired of stitching four apps together every Sunday evening to plan the week. Doorpost started as the tool he actually wanted — something that took his family's faith and schoolroom seriously without requiring a workaround for every secular assumption baked into the alternatives.
It's a small operation, built deliberately. No venture capital, no growth-at-any-cost roadmap. The goal is a product that's still running and still honest in ten years.
Begin where you are.
The family hub is free and ready. Add the family, set the verse, mount the tablet. The rest builds from there.