LostBin School

LostBin is an offline-first lost-and-found clerk utility for school front offices. It replaces messy notebooks and generic inventory tools with a simple bin-card hold board built for jackets, bottles, lunchboxes, backpacks, and other student items.

Open the app and go straight to the active board—large status cards with category chips, found dates, short descriptions, and live 14-day hold countdowns. No marketing carousel. No multi-user ERP. Just the desk workflow clerks actually need.

Log a new find in seconds: pick a category, confirm the found date (defaults to today), add a free-text description or location note, and optionally tag an internal bin shelf label. The card lands on the board immediately and starts its hold timer.

Open any card fullscreen to see an oversized timer, status (Holding, Claimed, or Donate-ready), a clerk note field, and clear primary actions. When a student or parent picks up an item, stamp the claim with a pickup name and optional student or class note. The card moves to history with a timestamp—no accounts, contacts, or cloud required.

Every card stores its hold start and automatically flags Donate-ready at day 14. Background refresh keeps due flags accurate while you stay offline. Use the donate queue to sort expired and near-expiry cards by remaining hours for end-of-week charity box clear-out. Review claimed and donated items in a simple history ledger with status and category filters for desk-side audit.

Busy morning rush? Filter the board by All, Holding, or Donate-ready, plus item-type chips. Prefer a lighter or denser Material layout, set a school display label, and keep the default 14-day hold—or adjust it in desk preferences. A seed demo set of sample cards with staggered hold ages shows a living board on first launch.

LostBin is typed input and local persistence only. No photos, maps, billing, or multi-site stock system—just a fast bin-card hold board so office staff can log a find, watch the donate timer, release to a named pickup, or clear expired items without ERP complexity.

Recent changes:
Initial production release of LostBin School.

First release: active bin-card board with live 14-day hold countdowns, quick New Find logging by category, fullscreen claim and donate actions, donate queue by remaining hours, claimed/donated history with filters, desk preferences, and a seed demo set so the board is alive on first launch.

LostBin is an offline-first lost-and-found clerk utility for school front offices. It replaces messy notebooks and generic inventory tool…