Draft. These are the bones, not the finished thing. The calendar below actually works: click a slot. Everything else is placeholder to react to. Tell me what's wrong and I'll change it.
Everyone says "let me know if you need anything." Almost no one knows what to ask for, and almost no one knows what to offer.
So we made it specific. You post what would actually help. The people who love you claim it.
For new parents, and for anyone in a season they can't carry alone.
Tell us what you need How it works"Let me know if you need anything."
It's meant kindly every single time. It also puts the work back on the person with the least capacity to do it — and so the help never arrives, and no one is at fault.
Set it up once, in about ten minutes.
Invite the people who'd show up — family, friends, neighbours, your church, the school-run crowd. They don't need an account to help.
A meal. A school run. Someone to hold the baby while you shower. Be as specific and as small as you like — small is usually what's needed.
One tap. Everyone can see what's covered and what isn't, so nobody doubles up and nobody has to ask you again.
A mess is the old word for the group who eat together. Yours is private, invite-only, and you decide what each person sees — updates, photos, milestones, or only what you need this week.
Post once. Everyone who should know, knows. No forwarding, no repeating yourself on the worst day of the week.
Different people see different things. Your mother-in-law and your work friend do not need the same access.
The same thing works for a surgery, a diagnosis, a move, a loss. Any season somebody shouldn't carry alone.
This isn't a startup idea about families — it's built by a board-certified nurse practitioner and midwife who watches new parents go home to an empty house and a phone full of people who'd have helped if anyone had told them how.
If you've had a baby, or looked after someone who has, we want to know what would have actually helped — and what you'd never use. That shapes what gets built.
Tell us what would have helped