Ickly in real life
Community is the product
Ickly works because parents look out for each other. So we show up in person: at schools, at meetups for moms, at tech events, and alongside the ambassadors who carry it into their own communities.
School events
Pickup lines and back-to-school nights
We set up tables at pickup lines, back-to-school nights and PTA meetings, where families sign up for their school's page on the spot and pick up a pocket hand sanitizer with their school's QR tag.
Contact Ickly to host a table at your school event
Meetups for moms
Low-key gatherings for local moms
Small, low-key gatherings for local moms to swap what's going around, share what they are seeing in their classrooms, and shape what Ickly builds next.
Follow Ickly on Luma for upcoming eventsTech and founder talks
Talks on building a health radar
Talks and workshops on building Ickly, from crowd-sourced health data to shipping a product solo. We share the messy parts and the wins with founders, builders and curious parents.
Follow Ickly on LinkedIn for more talks
Family tech meetups
Family tech, out in the real world
Meetups for parents, builders and family-tech founders, like Chicago's first Family TechWalk, which Ickly co-hosted in Skinner Park with the PiggyBack Network. Less slides, more playground.
Read about the first Family TechWalkAmbassador activations
Parents hosting their own moments
Ambassadors host their own moments: class chats, coffee with room parents and newsletter features. They get a share kit and a direct line to Ickly's founder so they can carry Ickly into their own communities.
The Ambassador Program
Ambassadors are the parents, class parents, PTA members and local voices who make sure their school gets an earlier heads-up. It is a voluntary role with a direct line to Ickly's founder, early access to new features, and a share kit built for real-life moments.
Ickly swag
We bring something useful to every event, so Ickly ends up in a backpack, on a fridge or in a class chat long after the table is packed up.
- Lavender canvas Ickly totes
- Pocket hand sanitizers with school QR tags
- School posters and pickup-line flyers
- Stickers for laptops and water bottles
Beta program
Try Ickly before everyone else
The iOS and Android apps are in private beta with a small group of parents who use Ickly every week. You get early access to new features, a direct line to share what's confusing or broken, and the satisfaction of shaping what the public version looks like.
- Install the app before it's public
- Tell us what works and what doesn't
- Both iOS and Android welcome
Want Ickly at your event?
School night, PTA meeting, parent group or tech meetup: we love showing up. Ambassadors get everything they need to host one themselves.
What parents need to know
Between events, we write it all down: plain-spoken illness explainers, what's going around Chicago schools, vaccination transparency and the school-year survival stuff nobody hands you at pickup.
- Illness guides written for tired parents
- What's spreading around local schools
- School health data, explained
- Stories from parents and pediatric voices