Own Your
Town's Social
Platform.

None whatsoever. Our team handles all the technology — building, hosting, maintaining, and updating the app. You focus on community building and advertising sales. If you can use a smartphone, you can run BusyBloc.

We've seen successful franchises in communities as small as 1,000 households and as large as 50,000. Sweet spot is a defined neighborhood, suburb, master-planned community, or town with 2,000–20,000 households. We'll evaluate your specific market during the application process.

Once your application is approved and the initial setup is complete, your branded app is typically ready within 5–10 business days. We'll walk you through the launch process step by step.

Absolutely. Many of our most successful operators run 2–4 adjacent territories. Once you master the playbook in your first market, scaling to additional communities is straightforward.

Nextdoor is a large national platform with generic features, algorithm-driven feeds, unverified accounts, and no local ownership. BusyBloc apps are bespoke to each community, operated by a local person with genuine community accountability, and specifically designed to generate income for the local operator.

Submit an application and we'll let you know the availability in your target area. Many markets across the US are still wide open. First come, first served.

We do not charge upfront fees for app development or deployment. We charge no franchise fees. Small fees may exist for development of branding, graphics, and marketing materials if you need help with that. Our goal is to get you to revenue as quickly as possible. We don't make money until you make money! We do strongly prefer candidates with attributes needed to build a successful community app. This includes sufficient capital to fund local marketing efforts, and the time and passion to get a new business up and running. Typical upfront marketing costs range from $1,000 - $5,000 and can include Facebook advertising (irony!), flyers, yard signs, business cards and other promotional material. Time required includes time to moderate and grow your communty, meet with local leaders, business owners, the chamber of commerce. Many of our app owners have other income or other business interests.

A lot depends on the size and scope of your community, your ability to sign up users, and drive engagement. Standard target communities are generally 10–50k households, with 5–20k app users. In markets like these, local businesses will easily spend $200–$500 a month, depending on business category. An app with 50+ advertisers could easily generate $15–25k per month. BusyBloc processes all payments, subtracts our platform fee (typically 50% of revenue), and sends you a check. Ultimately you are in control — because YOU set the advertising rates per business category and YOU control the number of advertisers allowed in each category. That's the excitement of running your own platform! Plus, you can easily own more than one territory. With no upfront fees, you're free to run as many BusyBloc apps as you want!