Product: Find Your Two — nonprofit volunteer matching, founded by Tony Eggleston
The Situation
Most people who want to volunteer have a little time, not a lot — two hours a month, a free Saturday morning. Most charities that need hands post their needs on their own websites and social pages, where nobody who isn’t already looking will find them. The match between “I have some time” and “we need someone Tuesday” almost never happens on its own.
Find Your Two was founded on a simple idea: a little time, given on purpose, changes your corner of the world. The platform needed to work everywhere people are — web, iPhone, and Android.
The Problem Behind the Problem
Three storefronts, one truth. The web app and both mobile apps have to agree on every opportunity, every charity, every signup — which means one backend serving all three. And there’s a constraint most web developers never face: once a mobile app ships to the App Store and Google Play, the API it talks to is frozen. You can’t change an endpoint and push the fix — thousands of installed apps are still calling the old one. Every API route becomes a shipping contract.
And a matching platform with nothing to match is worthless. The database needed real volume — hundreds of opportunities, not a demo’s worth.
What We Built
The platform backend: a REST API of 56 routes serving the web experience and both mobile apps from a single source of truth, with the discipline that contract demands — versioned changes, nothing altered in place, mobile compatibility protected release after release.
Then the inventory problem: an automated ingestion pipeline that finds, structures, and imports volunteer opportunities from charities across the region. It grew the DFW database from a single listing to 583+ opportunities across 75+ charities.
The Result
Find Your Two is live at findyourtwo.org, on the Apple App Store, and on Google Play — one backend, three storefronts, hundreds of real ways to give a little time.
This is what platform work looks like: the unglamorous discipline — frozen contracts, automated pipelines — that makes the visible product dependable.