inak.co is being built with family caregivers across New York City. A guided setup turns “where do I even begin” into a starter plan your family can share. When you are ready, there is an opt-in way to find other caregivers nearby who are walking the same road.
No account. Nothing you have to answer. Share only what you choose.
Most people do not start with a plan. They start with a phone call, a hospital discharge, and a kitchen table covered in questions nobody has answered yet.
You are seventeen. Your parent came home from the hospital last week. School starts at eight in the morning. So does everything else.
You and your brother are caring for your sister. The rides, the appointments, and the phone calls that never get returned are split between you, and the split lives in a text thread.
You coordinate from another state. The aide’s hours, the pharmacy, your father’s appointments: all of it is arranged by phone, and most of it is kept in your head.
Your family is doing hospice at home. Every day asks a question none of you has had to answer before.
The map family caregivers should have been handed on day one.
It does not exist yet. This is where its drawing starts: with the first days, and the first plan.
Three pieces, in this order. Each one sets up the thing after it.
A few questions, in order, at your own pace. You can skip any of them. “I’d rather not say” is always an available answer. At the end there is a starter plan: what comes first, written down instead of carried in your head.
See the guided setup prototype
This is a prototype. It is being tested and changed now.
Tasks, appointments with their reminders, and a simple log of what happened, kept in one shared plan. The work stops living in one person’s head. A brother in another state and a sister across town look at the same week.
Later, and only if you choose it: a way to find other caregivers in your neighborhood. Neighborhood, never an address. Small private voice circles come first. Meetups in libraries and public rooms come after. Nothing opens to the public before there are people whose work is looking after the space.
No account. Nothing you have to answer. Share only what you choose.
Joining anything is your choice. Every part of inak.co that connects people is opt-in.
If you ever choose to be found, it is at neighborhood level. There is no address field, and there never will be.
No one is findable who did not choose to be.
You never have to explain your family’s situation to use inak.co. Nothing here requires disclosure.
Your family’s information stays your family’s. It is not sold, and it is not shared.
This site keeps the same rules. Its forms ask for the least that lets us reply, and the privacy notice says exactly what happens to what you send.
inak.co is in its listening stage.
What exists today: this page, a clickable prototype of the guided setup (nine screens, from a welcome to a starter plan), and an open set of documents describing how we work, free for anyone to read.
Interviews with caregivers are beginning. What people tell us will set the order of what gets built next.
The plan, and it is a plan: finish the guided setup with the caregivers we interview, then test it with ten families in Brooklyn. When meetups come, they will borrow rooms in libraries and public spaces. There is no office and no lease.
Read the open documentation
The working document, the caregiver interview guide, and the design notes behind this page.
I am Rodel Oiga, and I live in Brooklyn. I am building inak.co as a Lēdor Labs project.
My sister lives with a rare neurological disorder, and her care is a family job that came with no instructions. In this same city, a neighbor of mine had become a leading advocate for families like ours, because she had to. My nephew helps care for his grandmother, and for a long time none of us had a word for what he does.
This page exists so that the word comes with a first plan, and with people nearby.
No account. Nothing you have to answer. Share only what you choose.
inak.co is being built in the open, in the places caregivers already trust. At this stage, partnership means one of three concrete things.
When meetups begin, they will meet in borrowed rooms: libraries and public spaces in the neighborhoods where caregivers live. If your organization can host one, that is a real contribution, now.
If your work brings you to family caregivers, you can point them to the interview door on this page. Their experience is what the next version gets built from.
The step after the interviews is a pilot with ten families in Brooklyn. Funding at this stage supports that pilot.
No partner has signed anything, and no one’s name or logo belongs on this page. Writing to us starts a conversation. It is not an announcement.
No account. Nothing you have to answer. Share only what you choose.
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