Alfonso Herrada / Builds / Familia
Live · 15 family members / 2026-04
A bilingual family-care line · One number, in two languages

Familia.

Bilingual care coordination, run by one multi-generational family.

15  family members · 3  generations · 2  languages · 11  days from empty repo · v1.0 · Live
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02·The moment

The whole family, on one number.

Spanish and English land on the same line. Each person reads it in their own language.

Two grandparents need ongoing care, and an uncle needs medical assistance. Fifteen family members across three generations help out, spread across two cities. The coordination lived in group texts, phone calls, and one person's memory.

Familia replaces all of it with one number. Text it in either language. The system routes who needs to hear what.

15family members 3generations 2languages
La Línea Familiar
+1 (312) 555 · Active thread
Pa Tengo cita con el doctor mañana a las 10. ¿Alguien puede llevarme? I have a doctor appointment tomorrow at 10. Can someone drive me?
↻ Translated to English · 4 family members notified
Mariela I can take Pa. Picking him up at 9:30.
↻ Translated to Spanish · Sent to Pa & Ma
Ma Gracias mija. ¿Puedes traer pan en el camino?
One thread · Two languages · Fifteen family members
03·The mechanism

One number. Three ways to reach it.

Text. Voice note. Photo of a prescription. The line accepts all of them.

i.
Text
A message in any language.
Spanish or English. The system translates and routes to whoever needs to hear it.
ii.
Voice
A note spoken aloud.
For when typing is hard. The note is transcribed, translated if needed, then routed.
iii.
Photo
A picture of a prescription, a chart, an appointment card.
Read by the system, summarized in plain language, filed where it belongs.
04·The receipt

From an empty repo to a working line in eleven days.

11days
Empty repo to v1.0. Supabase, Twilio, and Claude behind one bilingual SMS line, built April 23 to May 3, 2026.

No app to install. No password. No English required. The family set the constraints before the first line of code. Familia · v1.0 · Built April 2026

05·The system

A family-facing layer over a real care system.

Five steps from a text message to a routed reply. The family never sees four of them.

01 · Receive
One number
SMS, voice note, or photo.
02 · Route
Twilio
Inbound webhook, signature-validated.
03 · Record
Supabase
Every message kept, in both languages.
04 · Translate
Claude
Language detection, translation, plain-language replies.
05 · Reply
Back to the family
In each person's language. Same thread.

Before Familia, coordination ran through group texts, phone calls, and one person's memory. Now the whole family texts one number, and the system carries the record.

Built for fifteen people. Run on one number.

All builds → 2026-04 · Familia · v1.0 · Live