LASTIFY

Design to Last

Software and electronics, built to stay useful for years.

Lastify builds web applications for communities, schools and small businesses. We are also drafting an open standard that keeps an electronic board in production when one of its chips is discontinued.

See our software See the electronics standard
  • AhliIn pilot
  • Custom applicationsAvailable
  • Module standardIn drafting

01 Software

Web applications people rely on every day

We build software the way good hardware is built: for the people who will still be using it years from now, and for whoever has to maintain it after us.

In pilot Ahli by Lastify

Ahli

My Family, My People.

A private platform where a community keeps its family trees and manages marriages, zakat and welfare records in one place.

  • Family trees that connect across households
  • Records kept private to the community
  • Works on any phone and installs like an app
Visit myahli.com
Available

Custom web applications

Applications built around how your organisation already works, for record keeping, members, payments and reports.

  • You own your data
  • Maintained after it goes live
  • Built to be changed as you grow
Tell us what you need
Planned

School management for small schools

Admissions, fees, attendance and records for small and medium schools, shaped to how each school already works.

  • Fits the school, not the other way round
  • Will connect to Ahli, so a school and its families share one record
Tell us what you need

02 Electronics Specification in drafting

One part goes out of production. The whole board should not have to be redesigned.

Computer-on-module standards such as SMARC and OSM already protect the processor side of a design. The parts around it are still soldered straight to the carrier board: the Ethernet PHY, the audio codec, the RS-485 transceiver, the power regulators. When any one of them is discontinued, the board has to be laid out, built and tested again.

A carrier board with replaceable interface modules A computer module in the centre is connected to four solderable interface modules: Ethernet, audio, RS-485 and power. Each module can be replaced without changing the board. Computer module SMARC or OSM CARRIER BOARD · REV A · UNCHANGED Ethernet PHYChip A Audio codecChip A RS-485Chip A PowerChip A

Try it: discontinue a chip

Pick an interface. Its chip reaches end of life, and a new module built on a different chip takes its place on the same footprint.

Modules replaced
0
Board redesigns
0

All four modules are in production.

  1. 1

    One function, one module

    Each interface gets a small solderable module with a defined size, pinout, power budget and electrical behaviour.

  2. 2

    Design the board once

    The carrier board is laid out against the module footprint, not against one manufacturer's chip.

  3. 3

    Replace only the module

    When a chip is discontinued, a new module built on a different chip fits the same footprint. The carrier board does not change.

First module types

  • Ethernet PHY
  • Audio codec
  • RS-485 transceiver
  • Power regulator

More types will follow once these four are proven on real boards.

Open to everyone

The specification will be published free of charge. Anyone may design a board that uses the footprints, and anyone may make and sell modules that meet them.

Lastify's part is to write the specification, keep it stable, and test modules against it.

Take part in the draft

SMARC and OSM are standards of SGET e.V. Lastify is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SGET.

03 Principles

What "Design to Last" means in practice

P1

Replaceable

A single part can be changed without changing everything around it.

P2

Repairable

Faults can be found and fixed by someone other than the original maker.

P3

Documented

The information needed to maintain a product is written down and published.

P4

Supported

A product keeps working and keeps getting updates for its whole intended life.

04 Status

Where each piece of work stands

We would rather show the real state of things than promise more than exists.

AhliIn pilotRunning with a first community at myahli.com.
Custom web applicationsAvailableTaking on new projects now.
Open module standardIn draftingThe first four module types are being specified. Input from board designers is welcome.
School managementPlannedWe are asking schools what they need first.

05 About

A young company with one principle

Lastify is based in India and is at an early stage. Its founder comes from electronics engineering, where a single discontinued part can send a working product back to the drawing board.

The same thinking guides our software: build it so it can be maintained and changed for years, by us or by someone else.

Design to Last.

Contact

Tell us what you need

If you need a web application built, write to us with what it should do. If you design carrier boards or make modules, tell us what a useful standard must cover.

hello@lastify.in