Non-profit · Built by a parent
Wildwoodroots is a non-profit site built by one parent in Piedmont, California to aggregate tools that help parents manage carpools, school events you host such as camping trips, School trips, etc. The original apps here started as a way to stop carrying a whole trip, a carpool rotation, or a roommate list in my head. You can also add Apps that you want to share with other parents in the community. The apps need to be free for core capabilities.
Three apps · No ads · No paywalls · No data for sale
Why this exists
“I have three kids, a full-time job, and about ten minutes of quiet a day. Everything here exists because a spreadsheet and a group text stopped working.”
A non-profit home for the small, practical jobs school families actually run into: a camping trip that needs organizing, carpools for afterschool, roommates for the 8th grade trip. More will get added when a parent in the community needs one.
Built in the evenings, tested in the pickup line, and handed back to the community for free. No advertising, no selling anyone's information, and nothing locked behind a subscription — including the ones that come later.
The apps
Each one takes a job that used to live in a group text and gives it a place of its own.
Save your sanity and carpool
Carpooling
Carpools for afterschool activities, so the duty roster stops living in a group text.
Offer a ride, claim one, or take a turn you didn't plan for. Everyone can see who has the kid at 4:15, and nobody has to dig through messages to find out.
Group camping, made simple
Plan together. Camp better.
Camping trips
Run the Camp Wildwood Class camping trip without holding the whole thing in your head.
One place for the trip itself: who's coming, what the weekend looks like, and every shared cost from the site fee to the firewood run.
8th grade trip8th grade trip
Sort out roommates for the 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C. before the forms pile up.
Collect requests, match kids the way families actually ask for, and hand the final room list back to everyone at once.
Built something other parents could use?
Send it in. Every app is tried out first — core features free, safe for families, and no selling anyone's data.
Time back
These tools exist so the organizing takes less of the evening. What's left goes back where it belongs — volunteering in classrooms, on trip chaperone rosters, and at the school events that make the year. That trade is the reason the site exists.
Working on something your families need?
Teachers, committee parents, and trip organizers: tell me what's eating your week. If it's worth building, it goes here and everyone gets it.
Email hello@wildwoodroots.com
