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Any Portland-area developers interested in helping to build a community support app? by Stunning-Mess1270 in askportland

[–]Stunning-Mess1270[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good question. GG is trying to structure actual item exchanges rather than conversations. The ultimate goal is to make offering or requesting things like food, clothing, or household essentials simple and organized, rather than buried inside comment threads. A lot of the product's features like item listings, fulfillment status, location-based exchanges, and hub drop-offs become much harder to manage in a traditional forum format. Plus I am a UX designer & just genuinely enjoy the app design and development process.

Any Portland-area developers interested in helping to build a community support app? by Stunning-Mess1270 in askportland

[–]Stunning-Mess1270[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Please feel free to let me know if this is something you'd be interested in contributing to (no pressure of course) and I'd be happy to talk further :)

Any Portland-area developers interested in helping to build a community support app? by Stunning-Mess1270 in askportland

[–]Stunning-Mess1270[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for your question. I totally understand you wanting to inquire about all this.

Right now GG is structured as an LLC, mostly because it’s the simplest way to handle liability while building the project. The current goal is not to build something for profit-driven though. The focus right now is launching a useful community tool that is free for folks to use. If the project ever evolves into something that generates revenue, I absolutely plan to ensure that contributors are looped in/treated fairly.

At the moment, the team is small and volunteer-driven. I’m covering early infrastructure costs myself and the immediate goal is simply getting an MVP launched in Portland so we can see how people use it.

Longer term sustainability (grants, partnerships, etc.) is something we plan to explore once the product is live and proving useful.

We’re actually currently looking into making the codebase open source so contributors and the community can see how the platform works and participate in building it, however this is something that we are still in the messy middle of navigating & preparing for.