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Parenting needs some sanity, so we quit our jobs and built WeSprout

Parenting is already an extremely hard job, let alone the myriad issues tired parents find in trying to track down the best local babysitter and daycare services, schools, and more. Meanwhile, the brain-melting technology that we see employed every day focuses mainly on photo sharing, friend finding

Parenting needs some sanity, so we quit our jobs and built WeSprout launched on February 2, 2012 with 9 votes, #117 of 360 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Parenting is already an extremely hard job, let alone the myriad issues tired parents find in trying to track down the best local babysitter and daycare services, schools, and more. Meanwhile, the brain-melting technology that we see employed every day focuses mainly on photo sharing, friend finding, and money managing, but parents are often left holding the short end of the stick. This is accordi

Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Parenting is already an extremely hard job, let alone the myriad issues tired parents find in trying to track down the best local babysitter and daycare services, schools, and more. Meanwhile, the brain-melting technology that we see employed every day focuses mainly on photo sharing, friend finding, and money managing, but parents are often left holding the short end of the stick. This is according to Dr. Carol Peebles, a co-founder of WeSprout , a graduate of the first batch of startups from healthtech-focused accelerator, Rock Health . Dr. Peebles, a neuroscientist in pediatrics at UCSF,…from techcrunch.com

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