In June we launched Div'In on Kickstarter. The campaign closed without reaching its goal.
We want to say that plainly, because going quiet and hoping nobody notices isn't how we want to talk to the people who backed us. If you pledged, shared it, or simply followed along: thank you. That was real, and we felt it.
What the campaign gave us
Not the money — but not nothing. It gave us a community. Divers and dive center owners told us, in messages and calls, that the problem is real: the morning paperwork scramble, managing a center from anywhere, a logbook you don't have to reconstruct from memory. Nobody needed convincing the problem existed. That's genuinely useful to know.
It also forced us to get much better at explaining ourselves. We paid for that course in effort rather than money, but it was a course.
What never stopped
Development. Not for a single week.
Without going feature by feature, the work has concentrated on a few areas: making payments and billing more dependable, smoothing the booking flow, strengthening the mobile app, and a lot of unglamorous work on security and how we handle personal data — which matters more than usual here, because dive centers hold medical and emergency information about their divers.
Nobody writes a press release about that work. It's also what decides whether a system holds up on the busiest morning of the season.
How to get involved
The most useful thing you can do is use it and tell us where it hurts.
Divers: early access to the app — log dives, book with participating centers, tell us what's confusing. No cost. We ask for honesty, including the unflattering kind.
Dive centers: we're running pilots. Three months of free access to the management system, and someone on our side who'll actually answer you. We're keeping the group small on purpose.
Either way: email support@div-in.net and tell us which you are. No form, no queue.
Partners and NGOs — equipment brands, training organisations, travel operators, ocean conservation: we'd like to talk. Same address.
What's next
Our focus is the pilots — real centers running real seasons, and fixing what that surfaces. Stock management is built and in internal testing, but we're not releasing it until it's had a proper run in the field, and we're not putting a date on it. Room management and payroll are under consideration, not committed.
That's the honest picture. Small team, operational tool, built steadily rather than loudly.
The campaign ended. The project didn't.
— The Div'In Team 🫧🤿