In summer 2022, Julia walked by one of those old green news racks in her neighborhood. It was empty and collecting dust. She looked at it and thought, "Wow, this is outdated. Someone should really modernized and digitize it… especially ‘cause so much local news is online." The next week she walked by and the entire news rack was gone! What just happened?

Julia couldn't find any information about the sudden disappearance, so she decided to do some digging herself. She broke the story about the news racks disappearing, which she published in Mission Local.

After doing the research for that story, Julia was even more convinced that having a modern and digital version of the news racks would help people in San Francisco engage with their communities. And that's how digital neighborhood bulletin boards were born.