Quokka started as my own house-hunting spreadsheet. Crime stats from the SA Police website. School ICSEA scores from ACARA. Median prices from the Valuer General. Demographics from the ABS Census. All copy-pasted into a Google Sheet because no single tool would put them side by side.
After a few weekends of pasting columns and arguing with my partner about which suburbs were actually any good, I figured the spreadsheet probably wanted to be a real thing. So I built it.
Quokka is what that spreadsheet became - a tool for Australians who are buying a house once and want to feel informed about it without subscribing to investor SaaS or paying buyers' agents. All suburb data is free. Scoring and property tracking unlock for $19.
The default model for software in 2026 is: take VC money, hire fast, prioritise growth metrics over user value, get acquired or shut down. That's a fine model for some products. It's a terrible model for a tool that helps you buy a house.
Owner-occupiers don't need a tool that's been optimised against retention dashboards. They need a tool that respects their intelligence, gets out of their way, and is honest about what it does and doesn't know.
So: no VC, no growth team, no metrics dashboard tuned for engagement-as-a-virtue. Quokka improves when there's something genuinely worth adding, and stays out of your way the rest of the time.
Found a bug? Spotted a mistake in our data? Got a feature you actually need? I'd love to hear from you. Quokka has no support team - just me - so emails get read by an actual human within a day or two.
You can also follow along with what's being built - the roadmap is public.
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