An outdated bulletin board, and a better idea.
There's an old bulletin board at my workplace — the cork kind, with a few thumbtacks and some flyers that have been up so long the tape's gone yellow. A shift you're trying to sell. A truck for sale. A retirement potluck three Thursdays ago. It's where our little community lived, and honestly, half of it worked. People still stopped to read it.
But it was stuck to a wall. If you weren't walking past it, you missed it. And the moment I thought "there should be an app for this," I already knew the kind of app I didn't want — not another feed engineered to keep you scrolling, not another place selling your attention, not something the company owns and quietly watches over your shoulder.
I just wanted the good part of that bulletin board, in everyone's pocket: sell the tools, plan the cookout, ask the group, give a shout-out, keep up with the people you actually work beside. Community without all the other social-media noise.
So I built it. Nights and weekends, on my own dime, independent from the ground up. That's TOCTalk.