ForliLabs is a public lab for software ideas rooted in Forli and Romagna: practical digital products for local businesses, families, students, farms, tourism operators, civic resilience, and community infrastructure.
The goal is simple: turn local pain points into focused, testable software projects that can start in one territory and grow into broader products.
ForliLabs focuses on product experiments that are:
- Local-first, with real workflows from Forli, Romagna, and Emilia-Romagna.
- Software-led, cheap to launch, and easy to iterate.
- Useful to small businesses, families, communities, and public-facing operators.
- Designed as public prototypes that can evolve into production products.
| Project | Focus |
|---|---|
| Casa Studente | Student housing for university towns, matching students with landlords and verified rooms. |
| Bottega Digitale | Digital toolkit for small local businesses, artisans, and service providers. |
| Cura Vicina | Elderly care coordination for families, caregivers, and local support networks. |
| Visit Romagna | Tourism, experiences, itineraries, and operator tools for Romagna. |
| Agri Romagna | Farm and cooperative management for regional agriculture. |
| Piazza Viva | Local events discovery for residents, visitors, venues, and organizers. |
| Tavola Romagna | Local food marketplace connecting producers, restaurants, and consumers. |
| Ospite Facile | Short-term rental operations for Italian hosts and property managers. |
| Terra Ferma | Flood resilience, risk monitoring, and preparedness tools for communities and businesses. |
| Energia Nostra | Community energy management for renewable energy communities. |
Forli is a compact launchpad with strong local needs, nearby university talent, a dense small-business ecosystem, aging-population challenges, tourism corridors, agricultural depth, and post-flood resilience priorities. It is small enough to validate quickly and connected enough to scale across Romagna and Emilia-Romagna.
These repositories are public product prototypes. They are meant to communicate the product direction, domain model, and implementation approach for each idea. Some projects may be more complete than others, but each one is part of the same portfolio: practical software experiments for a specific place with broader market potential.