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Thank you for supporting Just Chicken In. This page shares how we plan to use funds and how you can help beyond donations.

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Transparent use of funds

Financial support

  • Our primary fundraiser is hosted on GoFundMe.
  • Funds support development, testing, and security work.
  • Totals include payment processing fees so milestones can be delivered.
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Funds are used for contractor labor, testing, and security related work. No funds are used for founder salary or general startup overhead.

How we think about funding

  • We fund practical work that improves safety and trust.
  • We keep the roadmap modular so progress is possible at any level.
  • We publish updates so supporters can see what changed and why.
We also plan a secondary funding round focused on supporting as many free and sliding scale users as possible while covering operating costs.
Beyond donations

Volunteer support

We are grateful for volunteer support from the community. If you have interest in helping, please reach out and tell us what skillsets you have and what kind of contribution feels realistic for you.

Email: hello@justchickenin.org

Most helpful skillsets

Technical and product

  • Flutter and mobile development
  • Backend and systems engineering
  • QA testing and accessibility review
  • Security review and secure design
  • Reliability and incident review
  • Documentation and technical writing

Design, care, and community

  • UI and UX design
  • Usability research
  • Community organizing and partnerships
  • Fundraising and outreach
  • Graphic design and content writing
  • Animal welfare and rescue experience
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You do not need to commit to a specific number of hours. Contributions are voluntary and flexible. We will keep scopes small and respectful of your time.
Planned development milestones

Where funds will go

Each milestone below includes a purpose and scope. All figures are adjusted to account for GoFundMe processing fees.

App polish and refinement

$4,700

Purpose: Make the app feel calm, friendly, and professional so people trust it and use it consistently.

Scope includes:

  • Visual consistency pass: spacing, typography, buttons, icons, layout
  • Onboarding clarity and copy refinement
  • Loading, error, and empty states that explain what is happening
  • Accessibility basics: tap targets, contrast checks, readable sizing
  • Cross device QA and small bug fixes that impact user confidence

Usability and reliability testing

$3,650

Purpose: Validate that the app stays understandable and reliable for real people, including in stressful or low bandwidth moments.

Scope includes:

  • Test plan and scripts, then 6 to 10 usability sessions
  • Identify friction points and confusing language
  • Accessibility and clarity review of key flows
  • Reliability review of missed check in and alert edge cases
  • Written findings with a prioritized fix list

Organization portal and directory

$4,700

Purpose: Enable organizations to participate in community care through a secure portal and be discoverable as support options.

Scope includes:

  • Organization signup intake and basic profile management
  • Admin review and approval workflow
  • Public directory page with simple search or filtering
  • Access control and permission boundaries
  • Copy review to ensure clarity and consent alignment

Guardian care portal

$13,000

Purpose: Give caregivers and guardians a secure dashboard to support one or more loved ones with consent and dignity.

Scope includes:

  • Guardian accounts and secure login
  • Consent based linking so a user chooses who can access what
  • Multi person dashboard with last check in status and alert context
  • Read only care packet access, with permission boundaries
  • Optional reassurance notifications when a loved one checks in
  • Revocation, audit logging, and guardrails to prevent surveillance behavior

Security audit

$4,200

Purpose: Reduce real security risk by validating data flow, permissions, and alert surfaces with an independent review.

Scope includes:

  • Threat modeling and review of sensitive workflows
  • Auth and permission checks across endpoints and roles
  • Review of alert delivery surfaces and care packet link behavior
  • Findings report with severity ranking and fixes

Reliability hardening

$2,600

Purpose: Improve confidence that alerts fire when they should and failure states are visible rather than silent.

Scope includes:

  • Retry logic review and improvements for key calls
  • Logging improvements so failures are diagnosable
  • Monitoring hooks and basic alerting when systems degrade
  • Fail safe defaults for edge cases

Failure mode and disaster review

$1,250

Purpose: Identify the most important ways the system could fail and reduce harm by addressing those risks early.

Scope includes:

  • Review of missed check in logic and escalation assumptions
  • Edge cases: phone dead, SMS delays, notification permission issues
  • Identify silent failures, false reassurance risks, and escalation gaps
  • Written list of failure modes ranked by severity with mitigations

Legal and policy review

$2,100

Purpose: Ensure our terms, privacy policy, and SMS consent language match the system’s real behavior in plain language.

Scope includes:

  • Privacy policy alignment review with actual data behavior
  • Terms review for clarity and expectation setting
  • SMS consent wording review for compliance and clarity
  • Contributor and volunteer agreement language for safety and boundaries

Total fully funded roadmap: $36,200

SMS consent · Privacy · Terms