Every meaningful change to SoShiny, dated and categorized.
The resident dashboard is cleaner: the count tiles for Announcements, Events, and Marketplace stay at the top and link out, and the long duplicate listings below them are gone. Your unit card also carries quick actions right on the detail line.
/communities is now a national "Find or Add Your community association" hub with a quick state switcher, and Florida gets its own landing at /communities/florida. Florida's county and category pages keep their existing web addresses.
Swept the rest of the portal for phone-friendliness. Tables that used to run off the right edge — Work Orders, Violations, Vehicles, Parking, Insurance, Employees, Email Members, Forms, Committees, Area Attractions, Activity, Notifications, the PM Schedule and Tasks — now show just the key columns on a phone (tap a row for the full detail). Board Meetings, Events and My Work no longer squeeze long titles into one word per line.
Continuing the mobile cleanup: the Units and Concerns/Feedback lists now show just the key columns on phones (tap a row for the rest), so they fit the screen instead of running off the edge.
Tightened the home dashboard for phones: removed the doubled-up header (the notification bell no longer overlaps the logo), stat tiles now fit the screen instead of running off the edge, the status chips are more compact, and the greeting takes less room so your community info shows sooner. A notifications bell now lives in the mobile top bar.
We gave the homepage a focused redesign so the offer is front and center. The hero now leads with a plain outcome and the price on its own line ($25/mo base + 33¢/unit). The feature list — which used to appear twice — now shows once, and pricing sits right after the industry cards so you reach it without a long scroll. The header clearly splits “Resident sign in” from “Get started,” the FAQ shows the top three questions with a new full /faq page for the rest, the statute and community-directory blocks moved down as bonuses, and the whole page was tuned for mobile.
Make SoShiny yours. Open the Appearance menu (the sun icon in the top bar, or the Appearance section in the footer) to switch between Light and Dark mode and pick a color theme tuned to your kind of community: Sunset for condos, Slate for HOAs, Marina for waterfront, Garden for mobile-home and 55+ communities, and Forest for campgrounds and RV parks. Your choice is remembered on your device.
Every card in the By Industry section now leads with a wide 3:1 photographic hero — condos, HOAs, marinas, mobile home parks, deed-restricted communities, and 55+ communities. Replaces the small emoji icon with imagery that actually represents each community type, and the cards link straight through to their vertical landing pages.
Rebuilt the soshiny.com footer as a multi-column layout: brand + Follow us on X on the left, a Product column (Pricing, Blog, Changelog, Get started, Sign in), and a By industry column linking to all six community types we serve (condos, HOAs, marinas, RV parks, campgrounds, 55+ communities). Wraps cleanly on mobile.
Refreshed the SoShiny wordmark in the header (now a touch larger) and the footer, added a new illustrated banner above the features grid, and swapped in a new hero video on the home page.
On a community's own domain, the sign-in page no longer shows the SoShiny logo up top — the association's own logo in the sign-in card stands on its own. Refreshed the SoShiny white logo in footers and the dashboard sidebar, and updated the footer credit to “SoShiny is © 2026 Savvy Brain LLC and Kevin B. Leigh.” with links.
Pricing simplified to a single linear model: $50 base + $0.50 per unit. No Starter / Growth split, no thresholds, no per-resident fees. On the home page, the old two-card layout is replaced by a single bold box: big price banner across the top, a Calculate-your-Association CTA, and 22 feature:benefit pairs in a two-column grid. The /pricing.php calculator: slide your unit count from 1 to 1,000, price updates live with no tier name; new two-line headline 'Amazing price for the Most Features / Everything you need to run a modern association'; slider layout restructured so the big price sits below the slider (no more layout-shift wobble as digits change); added a navy closing CTA block at the bottom of the page.
The features grid on the home page now opens with 'Full Association Website' (renamed from Public Landing Page, with a beefier description) because the public-facing community website is the first thing a board sees value in. The remaining 20 cards reorder roughly in the sequence a new board would actually adopt them — stand it up (directory, parking, rules, documents), communicate (announcements, email broadcasts, lobby TV), govern (events, meetings, voting), serve residents (concerns, ARC, work orders, amenity booking, vehicle registry, who's away), forms (e-signatures, sign any PDF), engagement (committees, search), and your-own-domain as the paid upgrade at the end. New tagline strip 'Condo · Home · Marina · Campground and Beyond' under the section logo. Eyebrow says 'Modern Association Software'. Closing CTA reads 'Ready to run your Association like a boss?'.
Refreshed the main site logo with the new SoShiny.com / Association Management Software lockup — a circular sun-burst mark with a tiny mid-rise condo, waterfront home, sailboat, and RV, paired with the orange wordmark. Live in the public site header. The dark-background variants in the dashboard sidebar and footer still use the previous mark until we have a reversed/white version of the new art.
Same product, broader vision. BadassHOA is now SoShiny — a community management platform built not just for HOAs and condos, but for marinas, campgrounds, RV parks, retirement communities, and any group that needs a way to keep members in the loop and a board organized. All existing customers, members, settings, and data move with the rebrand. Branding is being updated across the site; if you spot anything that still says "BadassHOA," let us know — we'll catch it.
The dashboard residents land on after logging in has been redesigned for non-board users. Removed the nag-style 'Needs your attention' banner. New layout: a help search bar at the top, a pinned emergency notice (when one is active), a 'My Unit' ribbon with your unit details, four clear shortcut tiles (Feedback to the Board, Rules & Bylaws, My Documents, Marketplace), announcements with color-coded type accents and a 'New' pill for items posted in the last week, upcoming events with thumbnails, a marketplace strip, your own recent activity, and a 'Reach your board' footer with board admin names and a link to the full contacts page.
Each rule in the listing now leads with its rule number in bold navy, followed by the source pill (bylaw / board rule / policy) and the category as its own warm-yellow pill. The default sort is by rule number (the way the board references them). Click Open on any row to view that one rule on its own page. Rule suggestion + rule category rename are now available to managers too (previously only members could suggest, and categories could only be added or deleted).
Every page now carries "© 2026 Savvy Brain LLC and Kevin B. Leigh. Powered by SoShiny." Marketing site keeps the existing fat footer; dashboard and admin layouts get a tight single-line stripe.
Sign in to your dashboard and the top of every page now shows your association's branding (logo + name + city) instead of the generic SoShiny mark. The collapse toggle for the side navigation moved up there too, so it stays visible and clickable whether the sidebar is expanded or collapsed.
Brand logos shipped to /assets/images/. Public top nav uses the color version (now 56px tall in an 88px nav bar for readability). Sidebars use the white version with the SoShiny Symbol for the collapsed-icon state.
Replaced the YouTube iframe with a self-hosted MP4 background video and overlaid the hero copy on top. Centered single-column layout, navy radial overlay for text legibility, dark-mode-friendly button styling, reduced-motion fallback.
Replaced the horizontal top-nav on /dashboard/ and /admin/ with a fixed left sidebar (collapsible to icons-only, mobile slide-over). Persistent collapse state, active-link highlighting, brand logo + user info + sign out all in one place.
Switched from Syne to Inter as the single typeface for the whole site. Hierarchy comes from weight + size + tight negative tracking on display-sized headings.