What YesTonight Is Right Now

Last updated: 20 September 2026.

You've been together for years. You live in the same house, most nights in the same bed, and somewhere after the day finally quiets down, there's a question sitting between you that neither of you wants to be the one to ask out loud. Not because the answer matters that much either way, but because asking and hearing no feels worse than just not asking. So most nights, nobody asks. You both just go to sleep.

That's the gap YesTonight is built for. It's a small nightly signal between two people who already share a home, nothing more elaborate than that.

What it is

YesTonight is a web app. You don't download it from an app store, you add it to your phone's home screen the same way you'd add any bookmark, and it sits there with its own icon like any other app you use every day. It runs as a progressive web app, with an installable manifest and a service worker, and adding it to your home screen is how you keep it.

How it works

Sign-in runs on a one-time code sent by email, so there's no password to manage. From there, I built a way for two accounts to link to each other: either share a six-digit code between two phones, or scan a QR code. That link is what ties one account to the other inside the app, nothing more.

The loop I built asks each linked account the same question once a night: are you in tonight. Each side answers from its own account, on its own phone. That's the whole interaction I designed for this loop. There's no message thread, no explanation required either way.

Where it stands

YesTonight is live now at yestonight.app. Sign-in, pairing, the nightly question, a match screen, and a streak and calendar view are all built, along with a settings screen. The legal pages you'd expect are live too: privacy policy, terms, support, and a way to contact me directly, all reachable from the site.

I'm still finishing it. I'm working through measured defects right now, text that falls below the required contrast ratio and controls that are smaller than the minimum tap target, on both phone and desktop, before I'm willing to call it done. I'm also confirming that the sign-in email reaches every inbox reliably, not just the ones I've tested it against, and I'm getting monitoring in place so a break doesn't sit unnoticed.

I built this one myself. It's real, it's live, and it's still a work in progress, which is a more honest way to put it than pretending otherwise.

Try it

If you want to try it, go to yestonight.app on your phone and add it to your home screen. Sign-in is by a one-time code sent to your email address. The next part is the pairing step I built: one account produces a six-digit code or a QR code, and the other account uses it to link the two together. If any of it doesn't behave the way I've described here, the contact page on the site is the fastest way to tell me.