Roommate Court

Work it out without making it worse.

Roommate problem? Tell Roommate Court what's happening and what each side says. It helps you separate the facts from the disagreement, figure out what might actually resolve it, and gives you words to start the conversation. Or use Chore Roulette to divide household chores and rotate the load over time.

Overview

Roommate Court has two tabs. Work It Out: describe a roommate conflict — your side, and what you know of theirs — and get a read on where the disagreement actually sits, not a fault ruling. It has only your account, so it never invents the 'real conflict' behind the fight or scripts a conversation where the other person accepts a proposal that hasn't happened. Instead it gives you practical options, an opening line, a question worth asking, and a proposal to make — with escalation steps only if ordinary conversation doesn't work. Chore Roulette: add your household and the chores that need doing, optionally tell it how heavy each chore is, and get a rotation — no invented effort weights, no fake fairness percentage, just a reasonable division that a 'Something Doesn't Work?' button can revise using new information you supply.

How to use it

1. WORK IT OUT: Describe what's going on, and — if you know it — what they'd say in their own terms. Add how long it's been happening, what you've already tried, and your living situation for more specific options.
2. Read the read, where the disagreement sits, and what to try. Use the opening line and the question to start the actual conversation — the proposal is something to suggest, not something already agreed to.
3. CHORE ROULETTE: Add household members and the chores that need doing (quick-add pills or type your own). Optionally mark a chore Lighter, Medium, or Heavier — left unset, chores are treated as unweighted.
4. Check off chores as they're completed. Hit 'Save This Round' to add it to the rotation history — future rounds use it to rotate fairly.
5. If an assignment doesn't work, tap 'Something Doesn't Work?' and say why. It treats your answer as new information and only changes the assignment when that information actually calls for it.

Example

Scenario: Your roommate keeps leaving dishes in the sink and you've brought it up twice but nothing changed. You also need to divide this week's chores.

What you do: Work It Out: describe the dish situation, add 'Weeks' for duration and 'We're going in circles' for what you've tried. Then switch to Chore Roulette and add both names plus the week's chores, including dishes.

Result: Work It Out tab: a read on where the disagreement actually is (not who's at fault), a concrete proposal you could make, and an opening line to start with. Chore Roulette: dishes rotate to whoever didn't have them last round, with a plain explanation of why — no fairness score, no fault percentages.

Tips

• Only fill in 'What would they say?' if you actually know — leaving it blank is honest input, guessing isn't
• The proposal is something to bring to the conversation, not something already settled — say so if you use it
• In Chore Roulette, save rounds consistently so the rotation history stays useful — history doesn't judge who worked harder, only who had what
• Load labels (Lighter/Medium/Heavier) are optional and reflect your household's own sense of a chore's weight — nothing invents that for you
• Use 'Something Doesn't Work?' with a specific reason ('I did the bathroom last time') rather than a general complaint — it's treated as new information, not a fairness dispute to win

Common pitfalls

• Roommate Court only has your account of the conflict — it says so, and won't pretend to know how the other person would tell it
• It won't hand you a fault split or a hidden 'real reason' for the fight — if that's what you're looking for, it isn't here
• The conversation section gives you an opening line and a possible response, not a full scripted exchange ending in agreement — that part is still up to the actual conversation
• Chore assignments only rotate sensibly if you save rounds — skipping rounds means no history to rotate against
• Clearing chore history removes what the rotation was tracking — only do this if you're starting fresh with a new household