BabysittingGroup.com is born!!

Last year my wife & I had our first child. Just prior to his birth two people told me about babysitting groups/co-ops. It’s amazing the things you never hear about until you have children. What amazed me even more was how this was one idea screaming to be turned into a web 2.0 application. After a little research I registered BabysittingGroup.com. If you’ve never heard of a babysitting group/co-op the idea is simple. The babysitting group is formed by a bunch of friends (so it’s people you trust). Within the group you can earn points by babysitting other members children and spend them by having other members babysit your children. The actual rules for each group can get rather complex which will represent a challenge.

One person in the group needs to maintain the diary (a job that may rotate each month). This person is responsible for keeping track of the points and may also need to ring members to organise the babysitting. BabysittingGroup.com will take over this role making group management more open while saving someone from needing to keep the diary up to date/organise babysitting.

There still a lot of work to be done but I’ve put up a quick page that allows people to register for beta invitations that I’ll send out towards the end of the project.