Fifteen years ago, when my family and I moved from Bloomington, Indiana, to Dayton, we struggled with a classic problem: amid scores of boxes, we couldn’t find the things we needed.

I’m an Information Systems professor with expertise in mobile technology applications, and my son is a tech enthusiast — so we teamed up to make an app that lets people quickly catalog and identify their boxes’ contents, making it much easier to unpack.

Fast-forward to 2025, and our app has been downloaded thousands of times; we’ve even partnered with a few local moving companies. It’s a labor of love, more than anything — we enjoy working together, trying out new ideas, and helping make moving less stressful for other families.

Unfortunately, a proposed Ohio bill — HB 226 — could make it harder for people t

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