Team
A group of people who kept showing up.
Lmnfrs Labs isn't a company. It's a loose, mostly-volunteer group of developers who started fixing problems we ran into ourselves, and never really stopped.
Origins
It started with one broken fridge.
Coldwatch was the first tool — built for a single rural clinic that kept losing vaccines to a fridge nobody was watching.
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2019 — the first fix
A handful of developers built a $9 sensor and a text-message alert for one clinic, because the commercial options cost more than the fridge.
- Coldwatch v1, one clinic, one country
- Open-sourced from day one
- No plan to build a second tool
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2021 — it kept growing
Other clinics asked for it. Then a council asked for something similar for flooding. The pattern repeated enough times that it became the whole point.
- Tideline started as a weekend project
- First non-founder contributors joined
- Still no office, no company
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2026 — still the same shape
23 contributors, four products, and the same rule as day one: built with the people who use it, given away for free.
- 23 contributors across 9 countries
- Four products in active use
- No customers, no investors, no exit
At a glance
- Contributors
- 23, across 9 countries
- Founded
- 2019
- Legal structure
- None — an unincorporated collective
- Funding
- Donations, no company, no investors
- License
- Apache-2.0 on everything we ship
What holds it together
No company means no one can sell it out from under the people using it. Every product stays Apache-2.0, every dataset stays exportable, and every decision gets made in the open — not because a policy says so, but because there's no other way this group knows how to work.
Come build the next fix.
Every product here started because someone needed it and nobody else was building it. If that's you, we'd like to hear from you.