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Choose a product to ask and offer in its Pools only, by their own rules: standing yeses, windows and curators. The ones Bellows can’t read say why.

Chosen family and home

Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pools are not for asks and offers.

Climbing and running

2 of 5 Pools read.

Dating and relationships

Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pools are dating Pools. Apps with a dating mode may read them; Bellows is for asks and offers.
Bellows reads none of its Pools. Many Moons: Harbor Counties is a dating Pool; Solo Poly Supper Club and The Orchard Street Household are not for asks and offers.
Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pool is a dating Pool. Apps with a dating mode may read them; Bellows is for asks and offers.
No app loads this, on purpose. Roomful is a dating app that hosts no Pools of its own. It opens full, reading the Pools you already said yes to. It keeps no Pools, so there is nothing of its own to load.
Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pool is a dating Pool. Apps with a dating mode may read them; Bellows is for asks and offers.
Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pool is a dating Pool. Apps with a dating mode may read them; Bellows is for asks and offers.

Friends and neighbors

2 of 7 Pools read.
Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pool is not for asks and offers.
No app loads this, on purpose. Familiar Faces is a friendship app that reads the groups you already belong to, like the Tuesday walk that leaves from the library steps. It keeps no Pools, so there is nothing of its own to load.

Games

1 of 6 Pools read.

Letters and languages

Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pools are not for asks and offers.

Mentorship

Its Pool is read.
1 of 2 Pools read. Asks go to its curator.

Music

Bellows reads none of its Pools. Its Pools are not for asks and offers.
3 of 5 Pools read.
2 of 5 Pools read.

Mutual aid

3 of 4 Pools read. Some asks go to a curator.

Peer support

Bellows reads none of its Pools. Scattered Light Stewards is not for asks and offers; The Heron is invite-only, with its own home.

Work and trades

Both Pools read, 1 only for its members. Asks go to its curator.

The Kindling project

Bellows reads the library’s Pools for asks and offers. The Kindling project’s own Pools, for its curators, builders and readers of the spec, are not among them.

The appsApps

The seven apps built on Kindling. Load a product first to open it in each of them.

Face UpOne card at a time, face up, in decks.
HeartwoodRead the whole person, and the rooms they belong to.
SundialOne introduction a day, at seven.
Card CatalogSearch first, every drawer.
Familiar FacesFriends from the groups you are already in.
BellowsYou are here.
ThresholdThe desk for people who keep Pools.

Next app: Threshold

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Today, 9:00 am

About Under the hood Keys

Bellows · ask your people for a hand, or offer one

Your asks

Lena Brightwater · Today, 9:00 am

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Answered 1

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About Bellows Under the hood

Free for people. Nobody pays to ask, to be asked or to be introduced. hello@bellows.example

Bellows is an invented app, and its people are invented, to show one way to build on Kindling. Kindling is a real open protocol, published by TranquilTech.

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More asks people make

What do you need?

Needed byHow many people

WhereAnything else they should know

Ask in these Pools

Bellows picked the Pools where someone said they can help. Change them if you like.

Horns and Strings for RecordsFerry Room Players · up to 14 daysSession PlayersSlack Water · up to 14 days

Other Pools you can ask in: 14

Friday SubsFerry Room Players · 48-hour window · nobody here for thisFix-It Friday VolunteersThe Board · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisDoor and Sound CrewFerry Room Players · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisBelay PartnersDrip Line · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisThe Saturday RunDrip Line · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisBig Game DayRain Check · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisCarpool to the CoastThe Board · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisRides to AppointmentsFoul Weather Friends · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisRides HomeSlack Water · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisLend and BorrowFoul Weather Friends · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisMeals When It’s HardFoul Weather Friends · through Hester, the curator · nobody here for thisSeen Work CuratorsSeen Work · through Delphine, the curator · nobody here for thisCape Tarrow First-Gen AlumniCape Tarrow Alumni · up to 14 days · nobody here for thisMidspan MentorsMidspan · through Fina, the curator · nobody here for this

Who said they can help

Horns and Strings for Records: open until Fri 2 Oct, 8:00 pm. Horns and Strings for Records uses the default window, up to 14 days, and never past when you need it.
Session Players: open until Fri 2 Oct, 8:00 pm. Session Players uses the default window, up to 14 days, and never past when you need it.

KMKofi MensahSigned in with OAuthSays: horns · “Trumpet and flugelhorn.”Through Horns and Strings for Records, allowed by Kofi’s own rules §7.2Session Players: Kofi takes messages only from people who are in Session Players too. You are not in it. §7.2Reaches Kofi by hand

Goes to 1 person who said they can help, all at the same moment. Nobody can pay to put an ask on top, and there is no urgent button.