The Workshop

Small, working apps and recipes — civic tools, games, and experiments from the workshop. Take what's useful.

On the shelf

Apps that live here. More land as they're built.

Make a Take

A recipe, not an app: a way to share a story that asks you to think first — compose your own take before you pass it on. It lives on every Dispatch article; a take-it-for-your-own-site version is in the workshop.

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See the recipe →
Neighborhood Starter Kit

A drop-in toolkit for standing up a neighborhood's civic presence — events, directory, and a shared calendar, self-hosted by design.

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Coming soon

Find it elsewhere

Built in the workshop, but they live in another context.

Heads in Beds

Run a public convention center's booking calendar and discover the only thing it's built to make is hotel nights — so to play well you have to say no to your own city.

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Read it in Dispatch →