Why I built DormHQ

Hi, I'm Ashley. I built DormHQ because I got volun-told into being the family move-in logistics department, and frankly, the tools available to me were embarrassing.

My daughter Kayla was headed to Georgia Southern, and I needed to plan. Not just a packing list, but who's buying the mattress topper, what size that mattress even is, what's already in the car versus still "on the way," what move-in day actually looks like hour by hour, and what she still needs once she's living there for real. I went looking for something that could hold all of that in one place.

Reader, it did not exist. What existed was a spreadsheet nobody updated, a Notes app list that got more chaotic by the day, seventeen open tabs, and a group text where "did you get the shower caddy??" went unanswered for four days.

So I built the thing I actually wished existed. One real command center for the whole family, where everyone can see what's packed, what's still needed, who's buying what, and what happens when move-in day actually shows up. No more mystery spreadsheets. No more "wait, did someone already buy this."

Kayla moved into Georgia Southern in August 2026, and building DormHQ around getting her there is what turned a personal headache into the thing you're using right now.

I've spent more than 15 years untangling complicated systems for B2B technology companies. Dorm move-in is a different kind of system, but it has the same problem: too many moving pieces and no single place to see what's actually happening.

DormHQ is what happens when a marketing-operations person looks at college move-in and decides the spreadsheet has had enough.

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