Why I built Sittally

My daughters do a lot of babysitting and mother’s helper work for families in our area. They needed a way to track their hours and invoice those families without losing track of who owed what.

So I built them a spreadsheet. It got complicated fast. Some families had their own rules for rounding up, and the formulas had to keep up. They could open it, add line items, and eventually export a PDF to share. It worked, but the invoices looked terrible, and wrestling with rows and formula quirks was nobody’s idea of a good time after a long sit.

I finally sat down to build them a proper mobile app. That became Sittally. No more tangled formulas to babysit. No more adding rows by hand. And no more plain spreadsheet dressed up as an invoice.

Track time. Send invoices. Get paid. Built first for my daughters, and for every sitter who has been stuck in the same spreadsheet loop.

— Sloan