You can build a working little app in an afternoon now. Sharing it with one other person still takes longer than building it did. That gap is the whole reason Kitchen Table exists.
We kept watching the same thing happen. Someone makes a tiny tool — a chore rota, a run tracker, a packing list — and then hits a wall. To let a partner or a teammate use it, they suddenly need a host, an account, a domain, and a deploy pipeline. The software took ten minutes. The sharing takes an afternoon.
Kitchen Table collapses that. A background daemon watches a folder on your Mac; anything you drop in becomes a live app served over local HTTPS, with a real address. The people you choose open it with a tap — no install, no signup, ever. When you want it reachable away from home, one switch turns on the relay.
The name is the thesis. A kitchen table is where small, personal things get made and shared without ceremony. That’s the bar for software too.