Welcome to the SparkyMinis Newsletter
Hi, and welcome. This is the first issue of the Sparky newsletter. Before we send you product tips and notes on what we shipped, we want to say what Sparky is and who is building it.
Who is building this
Sparky was not built in a boardroom. It was built on trains, in airports and at kitchen tables. We are a family of travelers, builders and parents who wanted software that could keep up with our own messy, busy lives, so we built one focused product at a time until it became a suite. We started with a simple problem: running our own businesses while traveling the world with our family, and not finding one platform that respected both the business side and the life side. You can read the full story on our about page.
The first spark was the Trips App, which we launched in October 2025 to deal with the chaos of multi-destination travel. Once we saw that travel was one part of a wider life, we folded that thinking into Sparky, so one set of products could handle both global business and personal adventures.
One product, per job
Most all-in-one business software ends up doing five things badly instead of one thing well. We take the opposite approach: focused products, each built to be genuinely complete on its own. Right now that means:
- For travel operators: SparkyTours to plan, sell and run trips, with SparkyLive as the free companion app for travelers and SparkyPay for customers who pay online.
- For businesses that run clients, work and money together: SparkyContacts, SparkyInvoices, SparkyExpenses, SparkyProjects and SparkySign.
- For asking and publishing: SparkyLoop for surveys and SparkySite for a simple site and blog.
You do not need all of them. If all you need is invoicing, SparkyInvoices works on its own. If you use a few, they connect: shared contacts, billable time and expenses flowing into invoices, no integration work. One sign-in through SparkyLi gets you into whichever product you need.
Built India-first, global-ready
SparkyInvoices and SparkyExpenses are GST-aware out of the box, with HSN and SAC codes, GSTIN fields and compliant invoice formatting. Alongside that, Tours, Invoices, Expenses and Projects handle more than one currency, so the products hold up whether your clients are down the street or on another continent.
What connected looks like
A concrete example, since "products that connect" can sound like filler until you see it. A consultancy tracks billable hours in SparkyProjects. When it is time to bill, those hours come straight into SparkyInvoices as ready-made line items, and the source hours are marked billed so nothing is charged twice. SparkyExpenses billable spend flows into invoices the same way, and SparkyContacts can pull in a baseline of contacts from a product like SparkyTours.
Data you own
Your data belongs to you. Export it whenever you need. A few products, SparkyTours and SparkySign among them, support Bring Your Own Storage, so your files can live in your own Google Drive or OneDrive. We build products for your success, not to hold your data hostage.
Beyond the products
Since late 2025 we have also run the Applied Gen AI Mastery Workshop, teaching the same technologies we use to build Sparky, and we do some strategic consulting in data and AI. It is a smaller side of what we do, and it comes from the same place: we decided early to build differently, with no VC pressure and no growth hacking, just sustainable software built by people for people.
What this newsletter is, right now
We are launching the products one at a time, and each launch has its own post. Start with SparkyTours, then SparkyLive, and the rest follow on the newsletter page. After the launch series, expect pointers to what we ship each week and how the products work together. We are a small team building in public, so some weeks will be quieter than others.
If there is a workflow you are stuck on, or something you want written up, reply and tell us. That is exactly the kind of thing worth covering here.
Thanks for being here early.
The Sparky team