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jomo

jomo

Your child's day, in your pocket

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Overview

jomo is a connected childcare platform for centers, caregivers and families. Parents get an iPhone app (Android is not available yet) that shows their child's day as it happens, handles check-in and pickup, and carries moods, messages and a calendar; care teams log the day and run a room attendance board, and directors manage enrollment, rooms, staff certifications and branding on the web. Its stated aims are to reduce admin burden for providers and increase transparency for families. It is pre-release: the App Store and Google Play releases are listed as coming soon, and the latest iOS work prepares the app for TestFlight.

The jomo Teams page: a headline reading 'Log it in a tap. Back to the children.', a green accent, greyed store badges, and an illustrated phone mockup of a room board with sample entries.
The Teams page keeps the Parents layout but switches to a green accent, a room-board phone mockup and its own in-page navigation (Posting, Attendance, Children, FAQ).
The jomo Centers page: a headline reading 'The whole center. One calm place.', a slate-blue accent, Get started and See how it works buttons, and an illustrated phone mockup of a center overview.
The Centers page uses a slate-blue accent and web-first copy, with its own navigation (Product, How it works, Pricing, FAQ). The Parents, Teams and Centers switch stays in the top bar.
The Moods section: the headline 'How was their week? Ask the phone.', a paragraph of copy, and an illustrated phone mockup with a weekly summary card above a row of five coloured mood tiles.
Moods are shown as a row of coloured tiles under a short weekly summary; the site says the summary is written on the phone itself on iPhones with Apple Intelligence.
The 'Private by design.' section: a short paragraph about children linked to an account, pickup rules and an audit log, followed by four rounded chips.
Privacy is stated in plain language and compressed into four short chips: you see only your own, authorized pickup only, every change on the record, your center's data stays its own.

Who We Designed For

Families whose children attend a childcare center, and the educators and directors who run it

  • Parents and guardians

    See their child's day, check in, tell the room about late, sick or absent days, set who may collect their child, and message the room

  • Care teams

    Educators and room leads who post meals, naps, photos and notes, confirm drop-off and pickup, and look up allergies and authorized contacts from a child's profile

  • Center directors and owners

    Run enrollment, rooms and ratios, staff certifications, attendance boards and center branding from the web

  • Authorized pickup contacts

    People such as grandparents who receive a pickup pass by text that opens in Apple Wallet, with no app or account needed

Tech Stack

On Mobile

The jomo home page on a 390 px phone: headline, intro paragraph, two greyed store badges, the top of a phone mockup, and a floating bottom bar with the logo and a Parents, Teams, Centers switch.
Marketing site on a phone: the top nav becomes a floating bar at the bottom of the screen, and the store badges are greyed with coming-soon labels.
The jomo Teams page on a 390 px phone, with a green accent, greyed store badges and an illustrated room-board phone mockup.
The Teams page on a phone: same stack as Parents, with the green accent and the audience switch showing Teams selected.
The 'Private by design.' section on a 390 px phone, with the four privacy chips stacked vertically.
The four privacy chips stack vertically on a phone.

Process

  1. Web foundation16-24 June 2026

    The first commits scaffold a Next.js app and a database schema, then add role-based sign-in, center and classroom management, attendance reporting, daily reports, guardian pickup authorization and an enrollment wizard.

  2. iOS app and shared API7-31 August 2026

    Web work resumes on 7 August with room-first staff assignments, a tabbed child workspace, conversations and photo storage. The iOS repository starts on 15 August and adds sign-in, messaging, a calendar, reminders and posts, child documents, a photo cache, attendance and the first client for center branding.

  3. Moods, branding, Wallet and the renameSeptember 2026

    Center branding gains five palettes plus a custom one and logo upload. Moods arrive on the Today feed, including a monthly summary written on the phone by Apple Intelligence. Pickup passes can be added to Apple Wallet, a text-size setting reaches every screen, cold launch is sped up, the product is renamed from DayCare to jomo on 23 September, and the public site gets its audience switch.

  4. Release preparation2-15 October 2026

    The iOS app is prepared for TestFlight (privacy manifest, export compliance, Terms and Privacy). Other commits add the app icon and favicon, public Privacy, Terms and Support pages, account deletion, and production links on www.jomo.kids. The latest iOS commit is dated 15 October.

AI Collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Approach

Claude is credited as co-author on most commits in both the web and iOS projects. Both also hold written plans and specs, and the web project documents a convention for how coding agents claim files, log progress and hand off.

Features

Families (iPhone)

  1. A Today timeline of photos, meals, naps and notes that posts as the room shares it, with swipe-back through earlier days
  2. Check in when the center's window opens, confirmed by staff at the door; send late, sick or absent notices to the room from the app
  3. Authorized pickup contacts, and pickup passes sent by text that open in Apple Wallet with no app or account
  4. Moods logged at home and by the room, with a weekly summary the site says is generated on the phone
  5. Messages to the room with photos and files attached, and one calendar for closures, trips and parent evenings

Care teams

  1. A post composer with quick selects for meals, activities, naps, notes and photos, tagged once to every child in the moment
  2. A room board showing who is checked in, expected or out, which resets at the center's midnight
  3. Confirm each drop-off and pickup at the door; the family is told straight away
  4. Child profiles holding allergies, medical notes, guardians, authorized pickup and family-shared documents
  5. One message thread per family, with photos and files

Centers (web)

  1. An online application form for the center: review each application, accept it into a room, and invite the family
  2. Staff certifications with expiry dates
  3. Rooms, ratios and live attendance boards
  4. An audit log of who changed what
  5. Invites by email for staff and families, with room assignments

Interface and privacy decisions

  1. One site with three audience pages (Parents, Teams, Centers), each with its own accent colour and in-page navigation
  2. Center branding: a center uploads a logo and picks a palette that families and staff see in the app
  3. A text-size setting that reaches every screen of the iOS app
  4. Moods drawn as shapes, with a distinct shade and pace for each feeling
  5. Privacy stated as design principles on the site: families see only their own children, pickup follows rules the family sets, every change is logged

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