nice work!

I started the company BEFORE my husband was diagnosed with cancer but to be clear I never sacrificed my health or time with my family. My husband is now cured of cancer, my family is thriving, and Winnie is doing great too. That's kind of the point of the post -- you can have it all (mostly).

Yes I'm in SF.

Why do you keep replying to questions not directed at you? It's plainly clear that you're located in SF.

To be clear, I didn't pay people in the beginning. I had a cofounder and an advisor and we all coded and worked FOR FREE before we raised money.

thanks for being here to answer questions! for the VC who reached out to you via email, who you deferred and then ended up participating in your round - did you have a past relationship with them? from where? where did they hear about you from, if you know?

I think we're trying to get a sense of what it takes to 'poop rainbows' (as my cousin comment said) and have VC's ask you to tell them when they can write their check :)

All information here is appreciated. We all aspire to be you!

I didn't code while taking care of my kid. My kid has childcare during the day! People love to assume that women are all just staying home watching their kids all day...

Who are you even replying to? No one assumed anything about you and jump in anyways with a negative spin.

Most people probably assumed the posters are male. More programmer dads out there than programmer moms. You seem to be a little defensive?

The only assumption I made is that childcare is not available at 3am

Thank you! That is what I meant. More generally, don't waste your time chatting with people (unless they are your potential customers and you're trying to get to product market fit). Spend your time BUILDING!

Thanks everyone for the awesome feedback :-) By the way you can find out more about what we're building at https://winnie.com.

Just checked out your listings for Dallas. May need to actually talk to some locals some of these places are not what I would call kid friendly.

Fair Park is in a sketchy part of town and basically no mans land outside of September-October.

The 6th floor museum is about the Kennedy Assassination. Doubt many kids would find that interesting.

I was really surprised to see Twin Peaks and Bone Daddys on there. You know these are basically Hooters, PG-13 versions of strip clubs. A Bike gang met up at one in Waco and shot the place up.

I looked at it for Austin and the first results are mostly parks (my kids never liked parks), then it gets weird. A Brazilian steak house? Then Twin Peaks? Twin Peaks is basically Hooters. But I guess because they have a changing table in the restroom, they are a good place to take kids.

Can confirm, Winnie is really cool.

I don't know if this is the classical definition of grassrooting because your HN tag mentiones you are the Co-founder & CPO of Winnie but there's also other new accounts just commenting on this story (tvnut999)

I'm guessing the commenter would have appreciated if annekate mentioned that they were a co-founder.

Doing so would leave no room for someone to mistake the recommendation as coming from a random, unaffiliated HN regular.

Concur, it's a great app and the founders are awesome.

It shows some promise, but for now it's not really usable. All this app is doing is scraping Foursquare data and looking for keywords. This leads to some hilarious results. For example, every frat house in my area is "a zoo", complete with an elephant icon, and a great place to take your kids.

Winnie | https://winnie.com | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time Senior Backend engineer: We're hiring a backend engineer to tackle some of the most challenging problems in local knowledge systems — building a reliable, canonical point of interest database, pulling together and sanitizing many disparate data sources, monitoring data quality, and designing processes to ensure that we have the best and most up-to-date directory of information parents need about their world.

We offer flexible hours, amazing work life balance, generous equity and full health and dental. If you are interested in working for Winnie, email your resumé to jobs@winnielabs.com.

Love the culture you've built at Winnie.

Very awesome idea and execution!