Why I built MyChara
I'm from Donegal. I built this for Donegal.
I've been a Donegal local my whole life. And like most people here, I've spent years watching questions get asked and answered on local Facebook pages. Places like the Letterkenny Babies page, where people ask things they'd never put their name to publicly, and the community shows up for them every single time.
But I also saw what it cost. The admins of those pages were doing an enormous amount of invisible work, posting questions anonymously on behalf of strangers, managing replies, keeping things civil. And still, the answers disappeared into the feed. Someone would ask the exact same question three months later and nobody could find what had already been said.
“I kept thinking — all this local knowledge, all this goodwill, all these people helping each other — and it's just vanishing. Someone needs to build a proper home for it.”
So I built MyChara. Not because I saw a gap in the market, but because I genuinely believe Donegal is one of the most community-minded places in Ireland, and I wanted to build something that reflected that. Something that made it easier for people to look out for each other the way they always have, just without the chaos, without the admin burden, and without your name being attached to every question you're afraid to ask.
MyChara isn't trying to be the next big tech thing. It's trying to be something smaller and more important than that. The digital version of asking your neighbour over the fence. A place where local knowledge lives, where nobody gets left stuck, and where Donegal feels like the community it actually is.
- If you've ever hesitated before posting something because you didn't want your name on it, MyChara is for you.
- If you've ever moved somewhere new and felt like you didn't know where to start, MyChara is for you.
- If you've ever wanted to help but didn't know who needed it, MyChara is for you too.
“Everyone needs a village. I just wanted to make sure Donegal had one.”