We were waiting on the call from the hospital for our scheduled induction. Originally we were supposed to come in Friday afternoon. The call didn’t come until Saturday evening. Almost twenty-four hours of waiting, waiting, waiting — and a constant stream of texts, calls, and “any update?” messages from family and friends who loved us and just wanted to know.
Somewhere around hour fifteen, half-laughing, half-broken, we said it out loud: there has to be a better way to do this.
I had an unused domain name lying around, and an old computer collecting dust. In a few hours I turned that old machine into a little web server and spun up a simple update page. We sent the link to everyone we knew and told them: we’ll keep this updated as things go. Check here instead of texting.
It was a hit. Friends and family loved it. We loved it. And somewhere in the quiet between updates, we knew we were onto something.