Threadspore
Most volunteer groups run on a group text that nobody can search, a spreadsheet two people can find, and an email thread that lost half its recipients in 2019. Threadspore is my attempt at the boring, humane alternative: one place per organization, with teams inside it, where the work actually lives.
I started it in July 2026 for Emerald Curtain Collective, the Oregon Coast nonprofit I co-founded. ECC is the pilot, which means every decision gets tested by real volunteers rather than by me imagining them.
- Each organization gets a branded portal with its own logo and color
- Teams hold conversations, to-dos, polls, photos and links
- Sign in with a code sent to your email, so there is no password to lose
- Join by scanning a QR code, with a coordinator approving every request
- One daily email digest instead of a notification for everything
- Runs in the browser and installs to a phone home screen
Invite-only for now. If your group might be a fit, say hello and tell me what you are currently using instead.
Who it is for
Small volunteer organizations where the people doing the work are not the people who enjoy software. Board members, crew leads, and the person who ends up organizing the beach cleanup because they said yes once.
About half the ECC volunteers are on rural connections, and plenty of them are not going to enjoy learning a new tool. That constraint shaped everything: large text, plain wording, few buttons, and nothing that assumes a fast phone.
In private beta with real volunteers using it weekly. It is free while I am still building it, and I would rather it be genuinely useful to a handful of groups than half-useful to a hundred.