Organizing work arrives as a long list of near-identical units — 900 doors, four hours of tape, sixty households to check on. The usual tools put one person in the middle of handing it out. This does not.
Every list has exactly two. Which one someone holds is the only permission system here.
/l/…Paste it into the group chat. Anyone who opens it can see the board, put their name on a chunk and take it. No account, no email, no app.
/m/…Keep it. It can release anyone's claim, add or delete units, change the wording, and lock or close the list. Bookmark it — it is not emailed to you, and it cannot be recovered.
A volunteer is a random token in a cookie and a name they typed. That is the entire identity model, and it is the point: signup is where volunteer tools lose most of their people. The cost is real — clearing cookies or switching to another phone hands your claims back to the organizer to reassign, because there is nothing to log in to.
A name has to be unique on a board. If there is already a John, the
second one is asked for a last initial before they can take anything —
because three chips reading “John” tell you nothing about who has what.
Capitalisation and punctuation do not count as different: John,
john and John. are one name.
Nothing is renumbered behind your back, and a name left behind by somebody who took nothing and has not been back for a day goes free again.
Someone takes four chunks and vanishes. Two things are on your side:
Three units at a time each, adjustable. Finished work does not count against it, so the cap limits hoarding without limiting effort.
Your page lists anything held for hours with nothing finished, with a one-click release. Automatic expiry exists but is off by default: yanking work away from a slow but honest volunteer is a worse failure than a chunk sitting still for an afternoon.
A public link with no accounts means someone could claim everything. The cap makes that tedious, the organizer link makes it reversible in one click, and nothing on a board is destroyed by a claim — releasing puts every unit back exactly as it was. If a list is being actively wrecked, lock it, release the claims, and share a fresh link.
“Yoink” is right for a bug sprint and wrong for a flood check-in roster, so the claim verb is a per-list setting: Yoink, Claim, Take or Sign up. Same product, right register.
A finished list is the best thing there is to share back to the group that staffed it, so it gets a real ending: the tally, everyone who carried a piece, and a recap on the clipboard in one tap.