Custom Software Examples

When your organization needs a custom online directory or a streamlined digital workflow, off-the-shelf software just won't cut it. We'll work side-by-side with your team to co-create a detailed plan. Then we'll design and build the tools you need to launch smoothly and grow confidently.

At Rockhopper Software, we've spent over 20 years solving complex problems with tailored online databases. Below are descriptions of a few recent projects.

How Does Your Local Police Department Handle Community Feedback?

Built in 2024

Rockhopper recently built a directory of police departments for Sivil Technologies, Inc. This directory lets users follow simple how-to guides, and submit feedback in minutes.

Department profiles include information about how to share a compliment or file a complaint against an officer. We aim to simplify the process and inform you of potential filing barriers.

This WordPress directory uses a custom theme that runs the department profiles, browse, and search functionality. It also provides management tools for Sivil's staff to add or edit all department info.

Sivil's directory provides useful information for communities across the United States. But it also has messages for police department staffers. It includes frequent calls-to-action for staffers to schedule a demo with Sivil. It invites them to learn about their next-generation case management solutions.

The natural resource benchmarking tool trusted by cultivators, governments, utilities and the supply chain

Since 2017

Rockhopper began building the Cannabis PowerScore™ for Resource Innovation Institute (RII) onour platform in 2017. RII "brings together stakeholders to assess resource use in cultivation operations, set industry standards, convene best practices events and advocate for effective policies and incentives that drive conservation."

We are steadily collecting detailed data from cannabis and other agricultural facilities. This helps to empower producers and informing the market with resource efficiency insights from real farms.

Growers assess their performance using industry-standard key performance indicators (KPIs). Their KPIs include energy performance, harvest productivity, and HVAC efficiency. These KPIs of facilities and crops to compare against key performance targets, and their year-over-year trends.

This software empowers data-driven decision-making so growers can reduce their usage of energy, water, and emissions. PowerScore is confidential, secure, and trusted by governments including USDA, New York, and Massachusetts.

Rockhopper is only responsible for the data-heavy areas of the PowerScore's website. Test out the Survloop-powered grower survey:
powerscore.resourceinnovation.org/go-pro

If you are in the cannabis movement and/or industry, please support this project:

Prepare, file, and track reports of police conduct because your story is too important to be ignored.

2015 - 2023

OpenPolice.org was an independent project developed by Flex Your Rights, a small 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. This website helped people build a transparent record of police misconduct.

By sharing stories, you can increase accountability and protect the rights of people in your community. Victims could file complaints against any of the over 18,000 police departments in the country, or private security firms.

We designed this software to help police chiefs sort through the good and bad apples, while also informing other community leaders with live data streams.

Complicated workflows encouraged paths that would maximize impact and safety for complainants. If nobody involved had unresolved criminal charges, then the software encouraged users to formally file their complaint with the official investigative agency.

Ideally, that civilian oversight agency or internal affairs office accepts complaints by email. In those cases, OpenPolice.org immediately e-filed users' complaints. Otherwise, users printed a PDF generated by the software, to send in by snail mail or another way.

Users had the option to file anonymously. Or they could opt into full transparency... After filing their complaint for official investigation, the website published their name and the officers' names online.

The federal government does not have statistically useful data from the top-down direction. We hoped that this project to grow into the national clearinghouse for police misconduct reports, collecting bottom-up data from the source, victims.

Initially, Rockhopper helped Flex design a database for six months in 2015. The fully developed website launched in 2020 and operated until 2023. Rockhopper Software Designs built Survloop around this seed, and kept growing it into an open data engine.

Find your pals on the playa

2011 - 2023

In 2011, Morgan (Rockhopper Software) had never wanted to use any Facebook Apps. But he built this one to find out where his friends were camping at Burning Man. He did all the coding for BurnerMap.com. We launched it with the help of a few friends, including an expert graphic designer.

Users fill out a simple form to enter where they would be camping. They can share any other messages or event information too. Their information is shared with their Facebook friends who are also using BurnerMap.

The software generates a visual map and text-based listing of all a users friends. This map's printable version made it easy to bring it with you around the playa, without internet.

Users have the option of finding camp mates with whom they are not yet Facebook friends. Between befriending features and the map, this software streamlined some very common experiences.

Most years, about one out of three Burning Man participants use the app – 20K-25K per summer. Over a dozen years, more than 119,000 unique Facebook users used the app.

Around 2020, Rockhopper upgraded this app to run atop Laravel. We also released the new code as an open source project. And in 2024, BurnerMap was adopted by a new technical team.