A neighbor-help board built for one small town at a time. Post what you need, see who can lend a hand, and let the neighbors who would have helped anyway know sooner, and know exactly what to bring.
The fence-line conversation, written down.
In a small town, help already moves. Someone is driving to town anyway. Someone has a splitter sitting idle. Someone noticed the porch light hasn’t come on in two days. What’s missing isn’t willingness — it’s knowing, at the right moment, who needs what.
Coppernook is a shared board for exactly that. A neighbor posts a request. The people nearby who said they’re up for that kind of thing see it. One of them offers. The board keeps track so nothing quietly falls through — and so nobody has to ask twice.
It is connect-only. Coppernook doesn’t employ anyone, doesn’t dispatch anyone, doesn’t take a cut, and doesn’t stand between two neighbors who have now met. It introduces, then gets out of the way.
Four steps, and most of them are somebody else’s.
Someone asks
A request goes up with a category, a place, and how soon it matters. Two lines is plenty.
Neighbors are alerted
It reaches helpers whose listed skills match the ask — not the whole county for every errand.
Neighbors offer
Anyone who can help says so, and the person who asked chooses. Only then do those two see each other’s name and number.
Good deed checked off
The request is marked done, so the town can see what’s still open on a bad-weather week.
Coppernook opens in a browser right now, and the downloadable app for your phone or tablet is on the way. It is free to join, and signing up takes about a minute at the kitchen table.
Open your town’s board
Each community has one link, passed around by the neighbors who set it up.
Set up profile in My Settings
Your name, the part of town you are in, and a number where you can be reached. That is the whole form.
Introduce Yourself
Asking, helping, or both. Most people choose both, and you can change it any day of the week.
Accounts are for adults. You must be 18 or older to join a board, and what you share is only shown to your own town. The details are in the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.
What neighbors actually ask for.
These are the categories the board ships with. They’re shaped by rural Montana — which means the list keeps going long after “a ride to the store.”
Everyday help
Home, land & animals
Weather, fire & season
The whole board can shift into a season, like a winter storm, wildfire smoke, or a power outage, and the categories that matter float to the top for everyone at once.
Share a smile with your neighbor.
Every neighbor has something to give, and something to be grateful for. We have all been on both sides of it. The neighbor asking for a hand this week is the same one who plowed someone else’s driveway last month. A kindness does more than pay itself forward. It is how you come to meet the people you already live among, and how giving something back to a place turns into belonging to it.
Freely given, kept private, and cared for.
- Your town’s board stays your town’s board. What is posted in one community is kept to that community.
- Given rather than sold. If a neighbor sends someone home with gas money or a pie, that is a kindness between the two of them, the way it has always been done here.
- No third-party anything. The page you’re reading loads from one place.
- Works on a slow line. Built for one bar, satellite or fiber.
- Free to neighbors. No fees, no subscriptions, no processing, no cut of anything.
- Real people run it. Coppernook is run by neighbors who live in the town, not by an algorithm.
Every town has good neighbors, and every town has someone who tests the fence. Here is where the fence is.
Neighbors, not contractors.
Coppernook is a place to ask a neighbor for a hand. It is not a job board, a marketplace, or a way to find work. Advertising a business, quoting a price, or billing for anything arranged here is out of bounds.
A thank you is welcome.
A big ask, like a run into the city, may leave a neighbor wanting to send something back. Offered freely, that is a donation between the two of you, and Coppernook is not a party to it. Charging by the hour, the job or the mile makes it a service, and that is not what Coppernook was built for.
Use the judgment you already use.
Coppernook makes an introduction and stops there. It does not screen, license, insure, train or supervise anyone, and it runs no background checks. Meet a new neighbor the way you would anywhere else, and decide for yourself.
What you learn here stays here.
Coppernook works differently than a social feed. When a neighbor shares a name, a number, an address, or the reason they need a hand, they are sharing it with this board and no further. Please keep it here, and do not share, repost or forward it beyond Coppernook.
Say it the way you would at the post office.
You will see these people at the store on Saturday. Anything written to demean, harass, or settle a score comes down, and so does anything aimed at a neighbor for asking or for declining.
Bad faith ends access.
Anyone who takes advantage of a neighbor, misuses what a post told them, or breaks the law is removed from the board and stays removed. Anything criminal or dangerous goes to the sheriff, not to a comment thread.
When something feels off, it probably is.
You are allowed to say no, and you never owe a reason. Trust what you know about your own road: meet somewhere open if you would rather, bring someone with you, ask what a stranger is doing here before you hand over a key. Reasonable doubt is welcome, and not rudeness. Always be kind, courteous and wise.
Coppernook is offered as is, at no charge, by Grizzly Mining Company LLC, as a way for neighbors to find each other. It is not an employer, an agency, a contractor, a care provider, or an emergency service, and it is not a party to whatever you and your neighbor agree to between yourselves. Neighbors help voluntarily, at their own discretion, and using their own judgment. In an emergency, call 911.
The full versions of these house rules live in two documents written to be read, not endured: the Terms of Use, which is this page said carefully, and the Privacy Policy, which is a short list of what Coppernook keeps, who can see it, and how to have it deleted. Both are linked at the bottom of every page.
One town at a time, on purpose.
Coppernook gives one small community its own board, even when that community runs miles down a single highway. A map comes with it, so you can see how close you are to the neighbor who asked before you offer.
Somewhere small you know
If your town already helps each other and needs a smarter way to keep track of it, that is the whole prerequisite. We do not publish the towns already running a board, because a neighbor board is for the people who live there.
Put the kettle on.
Coppernook is in early community testing.
If you’d like it in your town, say hello.