HOA community website

One Page for the Whole Neighborhood

Put announcements, governing documents, meeting dates, and forms on a free HOA website residents can actually find — with a password-protected area for board business and zero per-home platform fees.

Drag & drop governing docs, forms, photos, or html page here

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Or publish directly from your favorite AI tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

The result

One place for the whole neighborhood

Announcements, governing documents, meeting dates, and the forms nobody can ever find — on one fast page with the community's name on it.

Maplewood HOA

142 homes · Self-managed

maplewood.drops.sh

Pool resurfaces Sept 22 — gates closed for the week

Annual meeting · Oct 14, 7pm · Clubhouse

CC&Rs, bylaws & 2026 budget

Board minutes & financials

Members

Report an issue · ARC request form

[email protected]

Last updated 5 minutes ago · Served from a global CDN

Why boards do this

The community hub your volunteers can actually maintain

Not a $500 custom site that dies when the webmaster moves. Not a per-door platform subscription. One page a board member updates in minutes.

The documents live in someone’s inbox

“Can you send me the bylaws?” is a monthly ritual. Host them once and every homeowner can find the CC&Rs without emailing a board member.

Announcements deserve better than a group email

Pool closures, meeting dates, assessment notices — publish them where residents actually look, instead of an email chain half the street mutes.

Association dues should not fund software

HOA platforms charge $25–$100+ a month, often per home. A self-managed board can run its whole site for free on Drops.

Board business stays board-only

Minutes, financials, and delinquency matters belong behind a password — not in a shared drive link that gets forwarded around.

New homeowners onboard themselves

Welcome packet, trash days, pool rules, board contacts. New residents read the site instead of knocking on the treasurer’s door.

“Where do I find the…”

The start of half the emails your board gets. A community website answers it before it’s sent.

What goes on it

Everything residents email the board about, once

Steal this structure. If a homeowner has asked for it, it belongs on the page.

For every resident

Community announcements & notices
Meeting calendar and annual meeting date
Trash, recycling & bulk pickup days
Pool, park & amenity hours and rules

Documents library

CC&Rs, bylaws & rules and regulations
ARC / architectural request forms
Insurance certificates & policies
Resale & disclosure document ordering

Members-only area

Board meeting minutes & agendas
Budgets, financials & reserve studies
Homeowner directory (handle with care)
Delinquency and vendor contracts, if any

Getting things done

Board & committee contact info
Dues payment instructions
Report an issue or common-area repair
Welcome packet for new homeowners

Drops vs HOA platforms vs the email chain

Association platforms are built for collections, violations, and work orders — and priced like it. For communication and documents, a community page does the job for free.

Feature	FreeSite on Drops	HOA platformper home, per month	Email chaineveryone’s sanity
Residents find documents themselves
Members-only area for board files	Password	Logins for all
Announcements seen without an account		varies	if not muted
Works with your existing domain
Survives volunteer turnover
Cost for a 100-home association	$0	$300–$1,000+/yr	Costly in goodwill

Everything included

Built for volunteer boards

The features a community website actually needs — none of the per-door, per-month platform pricing.

A members-only area, one password away

Gate board minutes, financials, and the budget behind password protection. Share the password at the annual meeting — rotate it when a board member rolls off.

Every document, one library

Host the CC&Rs, bylaws, ARC forms, and insurance certificates as PDFs with fast built-in viewers. No more emailing attachments one homeowner at a time.

Announcements residents actually see

Post the pool closure or assessment notice in seconds. Update the page and it’s live — no newsletter deadline, no printing cost.

Your community’s name in the URL

maplewood.drops.sh free, or connect your existing domain — maplewoodhoa.org keeps working, now pointing at a page you control.

QR codes for the clubhouse door

Print the auto-generated QR on amenity signs, welcome packets, and meeting flyers. Scan it and land straight on the site.

Know the notice was seen

View tracking shows when the announcement page was opened — useful when the board needs to show residents were informed.

How it works

From email chaos to one community page

Set it up once. Every announcement after that takes minutes.

Gather the essentials

Governing docs, meeting dates, amenity rules, board contacts. Most of it already exists as PDFs and emails.

Build the site

Drop your files in at app.drops.sh and shape the sections. A board evening, not a web project.

Publish & protect

Go live on maplewood.drops.sh with free SSL. Password-protect the minutes and financials for members only.

Announce it to the neighborhood

Share the link in the newsletter and print the QR for the clubhouse door — then post updates in seconds forever after.

Publish with your agent

Your favorite AI agent can publish to Drops

Drops speaks MCP — the standard way AI agents connect to tools. Connect Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Gemini once, and any of them can build pages and publish them to your drops.sh site for you.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Grok

Gemini

Drops

One key connects them all · you.drops.sh

1.Create an API key

Sign in at app.drops.sh/account and create a key. Think of it as a password just for your agent — you can revoke it anytime.

2.Connect your agent

In your agent’s settings, add Drops as a tool and paste your key. One-time setup, about a minute — we show you exactly what to copy.

3.Ask it to publish

'Create our HOA site with announcements and the CC&R PDFs, deploy it to drops, and keep the board minutes behind a password.' Your agent builds the page, uploads it, and hands you a live link. No dashboard needed.

Try asking your agent

“Create our HOA site with announcements and the CC&R PDFs, deploy it to drops, and keep the board minutes behind a password.”

Show the one-time setup snippet

Paste this into your agent’s MCP settings (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and most tools), replacing the key with yours:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drops": {
      "url": "https://api.drops.sh/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer drops_live_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Endpoint: https://api.drops.sh/mcp

FAQ

Board member questions, answered

What self-managed associations ask before publishing their community website.

It depends on your state. Some states require larger associations to post governing documents, budgets, or meeting notices online; many others don’t require a site at all. Either way, a simple community website is the easiest way to keep residents informed and reduce board email — check your state’s civil code for what must be posted.

The essentials: announcements, meeting calendar, board contacts, governing documents (CC&Rs, bylaws, rules), ARC request forms, amenity hours, and dues information. Many boards add a password-protected members area for minutes and financials so resident-facing info stays open while board business stays private.

Dedicated HOA platforms typically run $25–$100+ per month, sometimes priced per home, and custom-built sites can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. On Drops, hosting the community site is free — paid plans only add extras like analytics history. Your dues can stay on the actual community.

Yes. Password-protect the page or section that holds minutes, budgets, and reserve studies, and share the password only with homeowners — at the annual meeting, in the newsletter, or by email. Rotate it when board members change.

Yes. If your association already owns a domain, connect it and the site keeps the same address residents know. Until then, a free communityname.drops.sh subdomain works everywhere — newsletters, signage, and documents.

Yes — that is where most HOA sites live anyway. Upload the CC&Rs, ARC forms, and insurance certificates as PDFs with fast built-in viewers, or link them from the announcement page with our PDF hosting.

Whoever holds the login — typically the secretary or a designated committee member. Updates take minutes, not a web project, and the site does not break when the volunteer who built it moves away. Hand over the credentials and it keeps running.

No. The public pages open instantly in any browser, no login and no app. Only the members-only area asks for the password you choose to share.

Your community site is one drop away

Publish it this week, announce it in the next newsletter, and retire the “can you send me the bylaws?” email for good.

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