Glastonbury and tech that fits into real life

If you’ve been following the highlights from this year’s Glastonbury Festival, you might’ve seen Emily Eavis, the festival’s organiser, mention one of her favourite features of the official app: live location sharing. In a crowd of thousands, being able to find your friends—or let them find you—is more than just convenient. It’s the kind of thoughtful tech that quietly transforms an experience.

And that’s the real magic of digital innovation: using existing technology in clever ways to make things smoother, simpler, and more enjoyable.

Tech that fits into real life

Whether it’s a festival, a business, or a building site, the best digital tools are the ones that solve everyday problems. Shoothill has been doing just that for years:

• With Sharmans, we built a bespoke cloud-based platform to manage their growing project load—bringing together contractors, properties, and workflows into one streamlined system.

• For Water Plus, we built a customer portal that makes account management easier and more transparent—no more waiting on hold or digging through paperwork.
• And with Housebuilder Pro, we created a platform that helps housebuilders manage sales, customer care, and snagging—all in one place through a web application and mobile app.

None of these projects reinvented the wheel. Instead, they took existing tech—mobile apps, cloud platforms, smart data tools—and applied it thoughtfully to real-world challenges.

It’s not about the tech, it’s about the people

What makes these solutions work isn’t just the technology—it’s the understanding of how people actually use it. Whether it’s festival-goers trying to reconnect with mates, or site managers trying to keep track of inspections, the goal is the same: make life easier.

So next time you’re thinking about digital tools, don’t ask “What’s the latest tech?” Ask “What do people need—and how can tech help?”

And if you’re not sure of the answer, that’s where Shoothill come in.