For families where the children spend time commuting back and forth between parents’ houses, keeping track of everyone’s schedule can be a challenge for moms, dads and kids alike. That’s a problem that Alex Jordan, age 11, has faced firsthand, which is why she returned this weekend to the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon to work on Famtastic, a combination family organizer and private social network for families and other caregivers, like grandparents and nannies.
This is Alex’s second time competing at the TechCrunch Hackathon. In 2013, she worked on Super Fun Kid Time – a playdate finder.
“I would be having a sleepover with my friends,” Alex explains. “[And I’d have to ask my parents] ‘are you picking us up? When are you coming?’,” she says. “You feel like you’re always bugging them.” Along with dad Richard, who works at Ron Johnson’s e-commerce startup Enjoy, a concierge service for gadget owners, the team of two built a basic family organizer website over the course of the weekend. Alex says she did some of the HTML templates for Famtastic, and has been practicing her Ruby coding.
Credits:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/20/eleven-year-old-alex-jordan-shows-off-famtastic-an-online-family-planner-at-the-disrupt-sf-hackathon
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