Porch Approved
Porch Approved · field notes

Notes from building the neighborhood vendor list

Short, opinionated essays on community trust, HOA chats, home-services discovery, and the small mechanics that make a neighbor-vouched directory actually work.

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Field notes

How I built our neighborhood's permanent vendor list in 10 minutes

The plumber question came up in our HOA group chat for the fourth time in six months. I'd had enough. Here's the 10-minute build — start to first rating — that fixed it.

May 14, 2026 · 6 min read
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How-to

Why your HOA chat is broken (and the 4-minute fix)

The same plumber question gets asked every six weeks. The good recommendations decay in 48 hours. Here's why the WhatsApp/Facebook group fails by design — and the four-minute workaround.

May 13, 2026 · 7 min read
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Local · Frisco

Best plumbers in Frisco, TX — already loaded by neighborhood

Frisco has more than 200 HOAs and master-planned communities. We already mapped them from the public TREC registry — so your community's neighbor-vouched plumber list is one click from existing.

May 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Want to try it on your block?

Spin up a private, neighbor-only directory in under a minute. Free for residents. Pre-loaded HOAs across TX, FL, AZ, NV, VA.