Join the founding circle.

We want to understand before we build, and prove it before we ask anyone to depend on it. So we're starting with a founding circle — and that circle will be Karmyq's first community. We'll use the platform to organize the people building the platform. If it can't hold us, it isn't ready for anyone else.

This is not a waitlist for an app. It is an invitation to a working conversation: what would make Karmyq safe, useful, and legible enough for real communities to trust?

The circle needs people who understand trust, civic systems, services, caregiving, governance, open-source software, design, research, and the messy reality of local life — community organizers, social workers, therapists, educators, local-service providers, civic technologists, open-source builders, researchers. People who have actually had to make trust work in a group.

If that sounds like your lens, the ask is simple: pressure-test the idea, name what is missing, and help decide what the platform must become before it asks more communities to depend on it.

This is early, personal, and intentionally small. The goal is not hype. The goal is better judgment.

Come with your expertise. Come with your skepticism.

Come with the part of you that still believes local trust can be rebuilt without turning neighbors into customers.

How to join.

Send a short note with your lens, what you can contribute, and the hardest concern you think the project needs to face.

Try the proof-of-concept

Prefer email? Reach us directly at contact@karmyq.org.

The circle needs more than software.

For specialists

Bring lived expertise from care, local services, education, facilitation, therapy, public health, design, or civic systems. Help define what trust needs before the platform scales.

Write your note
For builders

Karmyq is open source. Help turn the proof-of-concept into durable commons infrastructure: safer flows, clearer docs, better governance, and fewer sharp edges for communities.

View on GitHub
For organizers

Pressure-test whether this can serve real groups: mutual aid circles, neighborhood associations, cohousing communities, school networks, and local experiments in cooperation.

Write your note

You can also support the work directly on OpenCollective — every contribution funds infrastructure, not extraction.