OUR PET PROJECTS
Things we’ve built ourselves, because somebody needed them.
We don’t talk about digital in the abstract. We build, run and sell things ourselves – so we know what works, what falls over, and what to do about it. These are the projects we keep coming back to.
01 — Marketplace
Scottish Island Gifts
Built & run by Isle Develop CIC
The online marketplace for the Scottish islands. Over 4,000 products from 200+ makers, sent direct by the Royal Mail in all weather. Every penny stays in island communities.
It started as isle20 during the Covid lockdown, when island makers couldn’t sell at markets. It’s grown into a permanent home for island business – and the thing that taught us almost everything we know about running ecommerce on a small budget.
02 — Croft & farm tool
FarmPad
Built by Rhoda’s other company – same stable
Record-keeping for crofts and small farms. Rhoda built FarmPad because crofters needed something that lived on their phones and didn’t assume they were a 5,000-hectare agribusiness.
FarmPad sits in a different company to Isle Develop, but it’s part of the same family of work – and it’s a good measure of the kind of digital tool we like making: practical, plain, and built with the people who’d actually use it.
03 — FOOD SAFETY
HappyHACCP
Built & run by Isle Develop CIC
HACCP recording for kitchen-table food producers, not factories. Log production runs, track suppliers, and be EHO-ready – without paying enterprise prices for software designed for someone else.
It started as a problem several of our friends kept hitting: small food businesses need proper HACCP records, but the existing tools were built for industrial kitchens. So we made one that wasn’t.
04 — GAELIC LEARNING
Facal an Latha
Built & run by Isle Develop CIC
One Scottish Gaelic word a day. No pressure, no streaks, no shouting. A gentle daily vocabulary ritual for people who want a small piece of Gàidhlig in their morning.
It’s the smallest of our projects, and one of the loveliest. We make things that are useful at a human scale.