About
Communities deserve a home.
Ballastra brings a community’s conversations, voice, identity and rules into one place, so it can live somewhere instead of being spread across half a dozen apps.
Why Ballastra exists
Communities rarely have one place to live. Project teams, study groups and maker circles end up as a patchwork of apps, and the community itself is the thing that falls through the gaps. Ballastra exists to give them a home.
The problem
Most communities end up split across several products: one app for chat, another for voice, somewhere else for announcements, and a separate profile in each. Rules live in a pinned message, moderation lives in someone’s head, and context gets lost every time people switch apps.
The philosophy
- Structure first. A community should have a shape you can see and change — and permissions should follow that shape.
- Voice belongs inside the community, not in a separate tool you schedule.
- One identity. You are the same person in every community, with a different role in each.
- Honest by default. We say what the product does today, including what it does not do yet.
How Ballastra works
Everything starts with a Nexus:
- 01Nexus
- The community itself. Owners set it up, invite people and decide how it runs.
- 02Categories
- Groups of related Spaces that share permissions.
- 03Spaces
- Text for discussion, Voice for presence, Announcements for what everyone needs to see.
- 04Conversations
- Messages, threads, replies and calls inside a Space — plus DMs and group chats alongside.
Around that structure sit messaging, voice and video, identity, Discover and roles and moderation, with Aeros for automation.
What we’re building
A community platform for builders — developers, makers, students and the communities around their projects — where structure, voice and control are part of the same product rather than separate services stitched together.
Public launch
Ballastra launched publicly on October 20, 2026. Ballastra runs in any modern browser at web.ballastra.app and can be installed as a PWA. The Android app is available on Google Play. There is no iOS app yet. The product is actively evolving based on how real communities use it.
How we decide what’s next
We do not publish dated roadmaps we cannot keep. We prioritise what communities on Ballastra actually run into, ship it, and then say so. If something is not live, the site will not describe it as if it were.
Who builds it
Ballastra is built by a founding team of three.