What's growing across the ecosystem
50 recent updates from 19 projects
The New Haven Community Events Lending Library got a round of visual and communication polish, including logo and branding refinements and a dedicated sending address for library emails. These changes help the tool feel more like a real, trustworthy institution in the community, and having emails come from a consistent address makes it easier for borrowers to recognize and respond to messages. Small details like these go a long way toward building trust with neighbors who are new to a community resource.
Built by @kaddae
The New Haven Community Events Lending Library got a round of meaningful updates, including copy improvements, a fix for a broken testimonials section, the ability for borrowers to specify how many items they need, and the addition of Civic Works and GROUP PROJECT logos in the footer with links to their sites. These changes make the platform clearer and more useful for community members looking to borrow event supplies, and they visibly connect the tool to the organizations stewarding it. Other builders running shared-resource or lending platforms might take note of the item quantity input as a simple but practical addition to request flows.
Built by @kaddae
Welcome to the network, New Haven Community Events Lending Library! This wonderful project, stewarded by CWD and GROUP PROJECT, makes community gatherings more accessible by lending out chairs, PA systems, tents, lights, and more to New Haven neighbors. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see the events your resources help bring to life!
Welcome to the network, **sunset-delib**! We're thrilled to have this Relational Builder project join our growing community. Head over to their [repository](https://github.com/joshnesbit/sunset-delib) to check out what they're building!
Cozy Corner, the neighbor hub for 48th Ave in the Outer Sunset, now has an email reminder system set up and configured with sender and reply-to addresses. This means residents can receive timely reminders about local events and updates without having to check the site manually, making it easier to stay connected to neighborhood happenings. A small but meaningful step toward keeping a community loop active and reliable.
Welcome sunset-wave to the relational tech network! 🎉 This project, built with Relational Builder, is a wonderful addition to our growing community. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see what you create!
Sunset Wave rolled out a new visual identity across their whole site, with a rounded typeface, a warmer color palette, custom wave and waving-hand icons, and a consistent lowercase voice throughout the interface. All text colors were checked to meet accessibility contrast standards on the new background, so the friendlier look doesn't come at a cost to readability. The printable neighborhood invitation got the same treatment, making the whole project feel cohesive from screen to paper.
Built by @joshnesbit
Sunset Wave rolled out a new visual identity, including a custom wordmark with hand-drawn SVG icons, a warmer color palette, rounder shapes, and a lowercase voice that carries through every button, heading, and nav label on the site. The cohesive look and feel helps the project present a more welcoming, neighborhood-native personality, and the updated color choices were tested to meet accessibility contrast standards throughout. Other builders working on community-facing tools may find the approach to voice and visual consistency worth borrowing.
Built by @claude
Sunset Wave shipped a round of accessibility and mobile improvements, including better color contrast across the interface, larger touch targets, a friendlier bottom-sheet dialog, and an edge-to-edge map that works well on phones. The map's row labels now name both cross streets, making it easier for neighbors to find their block, and the grid has a descriptive aria-label for screen reader users. The project also gained a real README that explains how the tool works, how to run it, and where it came from.
Built by @joshnesbit
Sunset Wave now has a dedicated About page and a consistent navigation bar, giving visitors a clear path to understand the project, learn how the microgrant gathering model works, and take action as a host or participant. This kind of welcoming onboarding layer makes the difference between a tool that only insiders can figure out and one that genuinely invites a whole neighborhood in. The new 'How it works' overview and host-vs-join call-to-action cards are patterns other builders might borrow for their own community platforms.
Built by @joshnesbit
Cozy Corner, the neighbor hub for 48th Ave in the Outer Sunset, added a full Block Party 2026 signup experience, including a dedicated page, a registration form with friendly emoji labels, and a translated version of the page for non-English speakers. This makes it easier for more neighbors to learn about and sign up for the block party, regardless of language background. Other builders working on hyperlocal event signups or multilingual community pages may find this a useful reference for keeping things simple and welcoming.
Welcome to the network, **sunset-commons-map**! 🎉 We're so excited to have this project built with Relational Builder join our growing community. Head over to the repository and show some love: https://github.com/joshnesbit/sunset-commons-map
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond now lets users export item listings as a CSV file. This makes it much easier to take inventory data outside the platform, whether for printing, reporting, or coordinating with partner organizations. Other builders working on resource-sharing tools may find this a useful pattern for helping communities keep records of what's available and what's been shared.
Outer Sunset Today added a school lunch ticker to the community calendar, showing families what's being served at local schools along with the day of the week. This kind of hyperlocal, practical information helps parents and caregivers plan their days and makes the calendar more useful as a daily habit, not just an event lookup tool.
We're thrilled to welcome **rar-gear-library** to the relational tech network! This project, built with Relational Builder, is a great addition to our growing community of relational projects. Head over to their [repository](https://github.com/kaddae/rar-gear-library) to check out what they're building and show them some love!
Outer Sunset Today added a new scraper for VolunTracker and backfilled source links for AI-surfaced events, expanding where the calendar pulls in local happenings. This means more volunteer opportunities can show up automatically for residents, and every event now has a traceable link back to its original source. Other calendar builders working on event aggregation may find the VolunTracker integration worth a look.
Welcome to the network, **sunset-exchange**! We're so glad to have you here and excited to see what you'll build and share with the community. Check out their repository at [github.com/joshnesbit/sunset-exchange](https://github.com/joshnesbit/sunset-exchange) and give them a warm welcome!
Community Supplies, a supplies-sharing site for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods, received a significant round of updates including a new Request Board feature, dark mode support, onboarding demo data, and clearer calls to action. The Request Board is a meaningful addition, giving community members a dedicated place to ask for what they need rather than only browsing what's available. Builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing platforms may find the onboarding and request-posting patterns here worth a look.
The local-first-auth-simulator has released version 2.0.0, with a significant update that ties cryptographic key derivation to specific origins. This means developers testing Local First Auth mini-apps now get more realistic and secure simulated environments, where keys behave the way they would in production across different hosting contexts. If your project uses Local First Auth, this tool just got more trustworthy as a testing companion.
Built by @dmathewwws
Local First Auth has released version 3.0, a major update to this tool that lets web apps handle sign-in entirely on the user's device, with no passwords or outside services involved. For community tech builders, this means it's easier to add privacy-respecting authentication to neighborhood tools without relying on big tech identity providers or maintaining a backend server. If your project handles sensitive community data and you want to keep control local, this release is worth exploring.
Built by @dmathewwws
Local First Auth now gives each web app its own unique identity for each user, so a person's activity on one neighborhood tool can't be linked to their activity on another. This is a meaningful step forward for community platforms that want to protect residents from cross-site tracking without asking them to manage passwords or accounts. Builders working on privacy-respecting civic tools now have a cleaner foundation to build on.
Built by @dmathewwws
Outer Sunset Today added a source URL field to events, giving each listing a direct link back to where it came from. This makes it easier for neighbors to verify event details, find the original organizer, and trust the information they see. Other calendar projects tracking events from multiple sources may find this a useful pattern for attribution and transparency.
Outer Sunset Today added Far Out West as a new source to its event scraper, bringing more local happenings into the community calendar automatically. This means residents get a fuller picture of what's going on in the neighborhood without anyone having to manually add events. The team also simplified the interface by removing the alerts system and its call-to-action, streamlining the experience for visitors.
Outer Sunset Today fixed a bug that was causing event times to display incorrectly during Daylight Saving Time in the Pacific timezone. This kind of time handling issue can quietly cause community members to show up at the wrong time, so getting it right is a real win for anyone relying on the calendar. Other builders working with local event times across timezone boundaries may want to take note of this as a common pitfall.
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond got a significant round of improvements, including authentication and a community guard to make sure only the right people can access the supplies-sharing features. This kind of member verification helps build trust in sharing systems, ensuring that resources stay within the community they were built for. Other builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing tools may find the community access control approach worth adapting for their own projects.
Local First Auth now lets users edit their profiles and sign in with anonymous accounts, alongside a new 2.3.0 release. Anonymous accounts are a meaningful step for community tools where people may want to participate without sharing identifying information, lowering the barrier to entry for privacy-conscious users. Builders working on mutual aid platforms, civic engagement tools, or any app where trust-building happens gradually now have more flexible options for how people show up.
Built by @dmathewwws
Local First Auth now supports anonymous accounts, letting people use apps without creating any identity at all. This opens the door for community tools that want to lower the barrier to participation, especially for neighbors who are cautious about sharing personal information or who just want to try something out before committing. It's a meaningful option for mutual aid platforms, civic tools, and any project where trust needs to be built gradually.
Built by @dmathewwws
Welcome to the network, neighboring-recipes! 🎉 This forkable cookbook of practices for strengthening neighborhood social fabric is exactly the kind of resource our community loves to see. We're so glad you're here and can't wait to see how others build on and adapt your work under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Community Guaranteed Income Club app received a significant round of updates, including a new Directory and Network tab, deployed backend functions, and security fixes. These changes make it easier for neighbors to find and connect with each other through the platform, while the security improvements help protect member data. Builders working on mutual aid or peer funding tools may find the member and admin infrastructure here worth exploring.
Outer Sunset Today pushed a round of fixes and updates to their community calendar, including repairs to the event extraction system that pulls local happenings into the platform. More reliable event extraction means fewer missing or broken listings, so neighbors get a more complete and accurate picture of what's going on in the Outer Sunset. If your project aggregates events from outside sources, the patterns here around extraction reliability are worth a look.
Welcome **mini-app-starter** to the relational tech network! 🎉 This project is bringing a Lovable-style experience to building small, personal mini apps for you and your friends, and we love to see it. So glad to have you here!
Community Supplies closed several security gaps that were quietly exposing member email addresses and allowing unapproved users to read the catalog. Members waiting for approval are now properly blocked from accessing shared resources until a steward approves them, and stewards get a clearer view of who is pending versus deactivated. Builders working on multi-community or approval-gated platforms will find the patterns here useful, especially the unified join flow and the explicit membership status field.
Built by @joshnesbit
The community-supplies platform gained a search feature for finding supplies shared by community members, and a bug in the auto-approval flow was fixed so requests are handled correctly. These improvements make it easier for neighbors in the Sunset and Richmond to find what they need and ensure sharing requests move through the system reliably. Other builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing tools may find the search and approval patterns here worth a look.
The community-supplies platform received a significant round of improvements, including fixes that allow neighbors to successfully join the community whether or not they are already logged in. Steward tools now correctly scope their views by community, and new data policies ensure that complaints are handled with appropriate access controls, protecting resident privacy. These changes make the platform more reliable and welcoming for new members joining the Sunset and Richmond supplies-sharing network.
Welcome to the network, Community Guaranteed Income Club! This open-source web app is building the infrastructure for neighbors to fund neighbors, bringing mutual economic support to life through community-powered giving. We're so glad to have this project stewarded by the Relational Tech Project and growing alongside us here.
The Community Guaranteed Income Club has released its source code publicly under the MIT license, complete with a README, contributor credits, and privacy-conscious configuration that routes admin notifications through environment variables instead of hardcoded addresses. This means other neighborhoods can now pick up this mutual aid funding tool and adapt it for their own communities without accidentally exposing anyone's personal contact information. The four platform co-creators and the Relational Tech Project are credited in the license.
Built by @joshnesbit
The Community Guaranteed Income Club app is now publicly released with an open-source MIT license, a full README, and proper credits to its four co-creators and the Relational Tech Project. Personal contact information has been replaced with configurable environment variables, making it safe and straightforward for other communities to deploy their own instance. Builders looking to run a neighbors-funding-neighbors program in their own neighborhood now have a solid starting point to work from.
Built by @joshnesbit
Welcome buildirl to the Relational Tech Network! This club management platform for local community builders, created by the BuildIRL team and stewarded by the Relational Tech Project, is a wonderful addition to our growing ecosystem. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see how this tool supports communities coming together in real life.
BuildIRL, a club management platform for local community builders, has been open-sourced under the MIT license and transferred to the Relational Tech Project for ongoing stewardship. This means other neighborhood tech teams can now read, run, and build on a real-world tool that has handled club signups, campaigns, and member management in the wild. The full development history is included, so builders get a complete picture of how the project evolved.
Built by @joshnesbit
The buildirl club management platform is now open source, with a public-friendly README, an MIT license, and sanitized example configurations ready for other builders to use. This means any neighborhood group running clubs, campaigns, or community organizing can now pick up this codebase and adapt it for their own context. It's a meaningful contribution to the shared toolkit of community technology.
Built by @joshnesbit
Outer Sunset Today added a new iCal source and ran a deduplication pass to clean up repeated events, while also enriching existing events and sources with more complete information. This means residents see a fuller, more accurate picture of what's happening in the neighborhood without encountering the same event listed twice. Builders working on community calendars may find the iCal integration and deduplication approach worth a closer look for their own aggregation pipelines.
The Neighborhood API now documents a 'Sibling Specs' section, linking to the Thread API, a real-world implementation of the spec built for Thread's relational program in Baltimore. This makes it easier for other builders to see how the API can be adapted for specific community contexts, and highlights shared patterns like source blocks, place IDs, and publisher allowlists that teams can fork and build from. It's a small addition that makes the project feel less like an abstract spec and more like a living family of tools.
Built by @joshnesbit
The community-supplies sharing site for Sunset and Richmond now supports photo uploads, including a flow that uses AI to help process and describe items being shared. This makes it easier for neighbors to post supplies quickly and clearly, especially for people who find it simpler to snap a photo than to write out a description. Other builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing tools may find the photo-plus-AI intake pattern worth exploring for their own projects.
The community-supplies sharing site for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods received a round of fixes that resolved crashes when uploading photos on phones and smoothed out the full flow for adding new items. These improvements mean more residents can successfully post supplies to share without hitting dead ends, especially people browsing on mobile devices. Builders working on inventory or sharing tools may find the upload flow patterns here worth exploring.
The sunsetpeople project now has a proper description explaining what it is: a guide for finding community in the Sunset neighborhood. This makes the project legible to neighbors and potential collaborators who might discover it, replacing placeholder text with a clear statement of purpose. Other builders looking for examples of neighborhood guide projects can now understand at a glance what sunsetpeople is trying to do.
Built by @joshnesbit
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond now includes a forgot password flow, making it easier for neighbors to recover access to their accounts without needing outside help. This is a small but meaningful step for keeping the sharing site accessible to everyone in the community, especially people who don't use the platform every day and might forget their credentials.
Outer Sunset Today added a custom alert system and a daily weather alert that runs automatically each day, keeping neighbors informed about conditions that affect their plans. Timely, locally relevant alerts help community members make better decisions about events and outdoor activities without having to seek out that information themselves. Other calendar builders working on proactive notifications or automated community updates may find this a useful pattern to explore.
Community Supplies added a discovery map that lets neighbors visually explore where sharing is happening across the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods, backed by seeded location data and community pin auditing to keep listings trustworthy. This makes it easier for people to find supplies near them at a glance, rather than sorting through lists. The update also included polished flows throughout the site, making the overall experience smoother for both new and returning community members.
Welcome sunsetpeople to the Relational Technology Network! This project is a guide for finding community in the Sunset, and we are so glad to have it here. Check out the repository and show some love to this wonderful addition to our growing network.
Welcome to the Relational Technology Network, **neighborhood-api**! 🎉 This exciting project is working to build an API for our neighborhoods, and we're thrilled to have it as part of our growing community. Check out the repository at [github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/neighborhood-api](https://github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/neighborhood-api) and follow along as it takes shape!