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The nanny logs her hours in an app he built, and it totals her pay each week against their contract

He built an app that lets their nanny track her worked hours in it, so the family does not have to keep track so closely. The app holds their contract details with her, including the exceptions for vacation and sick days, and gives a total at the end of the week for payment reconciliation. It is one of several small apps he has built for family life.

How it works

  1. Build a small app
  2. The nanny logs her hours in it
  3. The app applies the contract rules, including vacation and sick exceptions
  4. A weekly total comes out for payment

Why it’s worth knowing

Household payroll, with its edge cases about sick days, is exactly the kind of small software nobody used to write.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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