Kinbee

Helping families find safe childcare on short notice

Kinbee is a two-sided marketplace to connect parents looking for ad-hoc Day Care choices with Day Cares that have spots open for the day. 

Kinbee was founded by Jenna Claypool in Bemidji, MN. She has the vision to impact families, home daycare businesses, and local economies by doing two things:

1. Giving families the ability to find childcare when they need it most, so they won’t have to call into work, and they can save their vacation days and use them on their terms.

2. Allowing hard-working daycare providers to increase their incomes by filling the extra space in their daycares.

Where Kinbee was stuck

Kinbee wanted to find an end-to-end full-stack development team who could build their marketplace and ensure a comprehensive administration panel as well. Kinbee’s founder did not have a technical background and wanted a fractional CTO to take over the technical responsibilities.

Kinbee wanted a partner who could take the work from defining the requirement for the MVP, building the platform and admin panel, and making sure it was beta tested with a comparable audience to the prospects.  

 

What is Kinbee

Where Kinbee was stuck

Kinbee wanted to find an end-to-end full-stack development team who could build their marketplace and ensure a comprehensive administration panel as well. Kinbee’s founder did not have a technical background and wanted a fractional CTO to take over the technical responsibilities.

Kinbee wanted a partner who could take the work from defining the requirement for the MVP, building the platform and admin panel, and making sure it was beta tested with a comparable audience to the prospects.  

Working with the startup founder from idea validation to creating the fully functional Web Platform, which is robust enough to handle 100K transactions at scale between daycares and parents.
  • Built backend databases to store Parent Details, Day Care Details, State Licenses, Country Restrictions, and Allergy and vaccination info.
  • Front built with custom HTML/CSS padded with PHP/Laravel to get the functions to work
  • Integrated payment details with Stripe.
  • Robust Administrative panel for the admins to manage the two sides of the marketplace
  • A simpler Admin Panel for Daycare to make changes to the availability and other changes that were the Outcomes after working with DSHG Sonic?

How the DSHG Sonic MVP Build team helped

What were the Outcomes after working with DSHG Sonic?​

From project and idea validation to a fully functional platform, we were able to get everything completed in around six months. This included changes within the Search algos to search for daycare as well as l creating county names and zip codes master to validate new daycare entries
  • A fully functional two-sided marketplace.
  • Parent and Daycare profiles and administrative activities for multiple Daycare administrators.
  • Super Admin functions for the founder to manage the operations of the startup
  • Payment processing with Stripe and percentage calculations.
  • Full-fledged Elastic Search to filter on multiple parameters.