Most of the work that holds a community together happens out of sight. Schedules kept, meetings minuted, water bills sent, leaks logged, trails marked, trees counted. The thing the community sees — a working road, a paid invoice, an event on Saturday — is the small visible part of a much larger amount of patient, unphotogenic work.
We build the patient part.
Because the bigger things — places where neighbours look after each other, where the land is treated like it will outlive us — those things never finish. They sit just past the horizon, the way the moon does. You don't catch up to them.
So we build small tools. To make our businesses and properties run better, our beaches clean, our surroundings beautiful, to make our roads safe, and keep our water running. Our friends and organisations around us needed it, and we needed it too, so does our planet. … Perhaps one day we will catch the moon.
- ASADA management tools
- Community noticeboards
- Property and small-business operations
- Crowdfunding and payments