It started with one night. My daughter was in hospital, thousands of kilometres from us. A friend sat with her, holding her hand and talking to doctors, while also fielding calls, messages, and the same questions from five different people. Two other friends wanted to help but had no way to be reached quickly. Everyone cared. Nobody had a Core for that care to move through.
Before writing a line of code, we asked strangers online whether this had ever happened to them. Over one week, dozens of people across the US, UK, India, and elsewhere described their own version of the same night. And just as many described a slower, quieter version of the same problem: parents growing older, alone, far from anyone who could drop everything.