Technology + Belonging + Impact
Building software that serves communities. Sharing lessons, case studies, and the messy process of creating tech for good.
Software We've Built
Real projects serving real communities—from foster youth support to employee feedback to donation platforms.
Mentor4Good Directory Platform
🌟 **Connecting volunteers with meaningful mentoring opportunities in Orange County**
Story Stack - AI-Powered Journaling App
A minimalist journaling and storytelling web application that helps users reflect, write, and share meaningful moments with AI prompts that guide emotional processing and personal growth.
FeedbackLoop — AI-Powered Pulse Surveys for Small Teams
Turn 1–3 question pulse checks into clear, actionable insights.
Foster Greatness Community AI Assistant
A comprehensive AI-powered community management assistant built for Foster Greatness, empowering foster youth through digital community engagement. Features human-in-the-loop approval workflows, shared memory system, and complete integration with Circle.so API to support the organization's mission of providing lifelong support for individuals impacted by the foster care system.
Basic Need Kit - Hygiene Kit Donation Platform
A Next.js donation platform for sponsoring hygiene kits for the Orangewood Foundation in Santa Ana, CA. This corporate-friendly charitable giving storefront allows individuals and organizations to purchase pre-curated hygiene kits for young people experiencing homelessness and foster care transitions.
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What We're Working On
Real stories from the tech-for-good trenches. Each post chronicles a single intensive day of development work—the decisions, the dead ends, the breakthroughs, and the "why" behind the code.
Ship Fast, Iterate Faster: Building Crisis Support in Three Deployments
How Foster Greatness UK deployed crisis support infrastructure three times in 5.5 hours during a live event emergency.
Building Tools to Build Better Platforms
How 106 sessions on September 30th built zero customer-facing features and made everything faster forever.
Running Two Platforms at Once: The Reality of Business-Powered Social Impact
The operational reality when revenue and mission platforms both demand technical excellence simultaneously.
From the Builder's Bench
Daily updates, quick wins, and real-time thinking. Short-form notes on what I'm building, learning, and shipping.
Peter Brooks
Jan 20
Just shipped a fix for the Circle Manager notification race condition. Sometimes the simplest bugs are the most satisfying to squash.
Peter Brooks
Jan 20
Thinking about how Logseq block structure could map to our case study documentation. Could we auto-generate project timelines from daily logs?
Peter Brooks
Jan 19
User feedback from Mentor4Good: "I can finally keep track of my mentees without spreadsheets." This is why we build. 💚
Builder's Lab
Ask us about projects we've built, tech stack decisions, or our approach to building software for social good.
Ask about architecture, challenges, and lessons learned
Learn why we chose specific frameworks and tools
Explore approaches to creating social impact software