About me
Some readers of this site may be wondering who I am and why I decided to create BabysittingGroup.com.
So who am I? My name is Rich and I live in Sydney, Australia. For the last 13 years I’ve been developing web applications for other people. While I still have a day job working for someone else I’ve always had side projects, like this, to keep me occupied.
About 18 months ago I became the father of a wonderful baby boy we named Jonathan.
Jonathan at 10 months
Just prior to Jonathan’s birth I was told about babysitting co-op’s by two people. This was really well timed as a number of my friends had also recently had children too.
While the co-op that they both described sounded like a great idea it also sounded like an administrative nightmare. This is the point where good idea plus web developer becomes a good opportunity. My plan is to build a web application that handles the co-op administration.
The first version will be out shortly. Until then I’m going to use this site to write about babysitting co-ops and the development of the application.
Hi Rich,
Congratulations on the birth of your baby.
I ran across your site while googling “babysitting co-op templates.” I’ve been in a babysitting co-op in New York City for over a year and am tiring of the paperwork and wondering if there must be a better way. Are you intending to launch a website or something that other people could use, or are you just looking to work on something for your own group? I think there’s a real need/market for such a thing, and I’d be delighted to be your first customer!
Also, back in the 90s, I was an information architect, and would be happy to help out in any way you could use.
Best regards,
Laura AT equatorial.tv
PS. Babysitting co-ops are great. Love the modern village.