Arrastra Labs
Independent software studio · Arizona

ArrastraLabs

Patient work. Useful software.

Arrastra Labs is an independent studio building focused software: products that do one job well and get better with every lap. Small team, long view, and every product made to earn its keep.

Meet Boonanza → Why “Arrastra”?
Our name

An arrastra turned rock into gold, one lap at a time.

Before big industrial mills, prospectors across Mexico and the American Southwest built arrastras: a stone-lined pit, a post in the center, a beam, and heavy drag stones pulled in circles until raw ore gave up its gold. The word comes from the Spanish arrastrar, “to drag.”

It was simple, built on the spot from what was at hand, and it worked because it never stopped turning. That’s how we build: patient, repeated work that turns raw ideas into something worth keeping.

The post and beamThe steady center everything turns around.
The drag stonesOur products, doing the grinding.
The trailsThe progress worn in, lap after lap. Together they make our mark.
In a word

Three words behind the names.

Both names come from the mining camps of the Southwest. An arrastra ground the ore; a bonanza was what everyone hoped to find.

arrastra
ah·RAHS·truh
noun
  1. A simple mill for grinding ore: a circular, stone-lined pit where heavy stones are dragged around a center post, crushing rock until its gold or silver can be recovered.
  2. Patient, repeated work that turns raw material into something of value.

From Spanish arrastrar, “to drag.” Used across colonial Mexico and the American Southwest.

bonanza
buh·NAN·zuh
noun
  1. A rich vein or pocket of ore in a mine.
  2. A source of sudden wealth or good luck; a windfall.

From Spanish bonanza, “fair weather, prosperity.” Miners in the American West gave it the sense of striking it rich.

boondocking
BOON·dok·ing
noun
  1. Camping off the grid, usually for free on public land, with no hookups or campground: just you, your rig and the view.

From boondocks, “remote country,” borrowed from Tagalog bundok, “mountain.”

boondocking + bonanza = Boonanza: the free spot that turns out to be the find of the trip.

Products

Our first product

We start with one thing and make it excellent.

Free while in beta

Boonanza is the road trip, camping and off-road app built around hidden gems: scenic stops worth the detour, great places to camp and the backroads worth driving, with the route, weather and signal planned around your rig.

  • Campsites, backroads and public land on one map
  • Scenic stops: overlooks, byways, wild rivers and hot springs
  • Community gems and nomad classics, kept current by check-ins
  • Fall colors and sun & shade for picking the spot
  • Routes around your rig, with weather at every stop
  • Synced across phone and laptop, and it works offline
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How we work

Built to last, not to churn.

01

Small and focused

Each product does one job and does it well. No bloat, no dark patterns, no features nobody asked for.

02

Made by people who use it

We build what we’d use ourselves, then refine it with the people who rely on it.

03

Fair and straightforward

Clear pricing, your data stays yours, and a real person answers when you write in.

Contact

Say hello.

Questions, partnerships, press, or feedback on Boonanza. We read everything.

hello@arrastralabs.com