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The Pick Up
School pickup, coordinated. A mobile-first app that tells staff who's arriving and when, so the line at the gate moves. A Precognition Factory product, on its way.
thepickup.precognitionfactory.com: not live yet
Still tinkering
What it is
School pickup is a queue nobody can see. The Pick Up makes it visible. It's a mobile-first app for parents, staff, teachers and admins: parents start their trip, the app works out who's close, and staff see a ranked pickup queue so the right kid is at the gate when the right car arrives.
What I built
- a web app on your phone with a separate view for each role: parent, staff, teacher and admin
- ETAs, geofence distances and queue ranking, so the queue orders itself by who's actually arriving
- a live mode for real schools, sessions and pickup events, and a demo mode that runs the same screens on simulated traffic
- a home dashboard that works in both modes
It runs on a React front end with a FastAPI back end.
Where it's at
Still being built. It's moving to its own home at thepickup.precognitionfactory.com as a Precognition Factory product. Like Precognition Factory itself, it won't link back here.