Design
May 30, 2026
Photographic hero cards on the homepage By Industry section
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.
Design
May 29, 2026
Refreshed the marketing footer
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.
Design
May 28, 2026
New logos and hero video
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.
Design
May 28, 2026
Custom-domain login + footer polish
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 redesign — one price, every feature, no tiers
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.
Marketing site refresh — feature ordering by association lifecycle
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?'.
New SoShiny logo lockup
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.
We're now SoShiny — rebranded from BadassHOA
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.
Resident dashboard rebuilt for everyday homeowners
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.
Rules: number-first layout + category as a pill + open one rule at a time
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).
Copyright footer on every page
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.
Each association's logo and name now anchor the dashboard
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.
Refined logos + bigger nav lockup
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.
Full-bleed video hero
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.
Left-sidebar layout for dashboard + admin
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.
Inter typography throughout
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.