Shitty Mom Guide
Shitty Mom Guide is a weekly Orange County parenting newsletter that goes out on Thursdays, plus an Instagram account and a website with an interactive map of kid-friendly places and guides to things like splash pads and where kids eat free. A team of AI research agents finds the events. I write the jokes.
The story
The first time I really felt like a shitty mom, I was pregnant with my second daughter, sitting at my desk crying. I called it Shitty Mom Guide because that's how so many of us feel, even when we're doing everything we can.
I was spending 45 minutes every Thursday night Googling kid activities, opening five apps, and ending up doing nothing interesting. If you cringe at the word, this brand is not for you, and that's exactly the point.
- Launched
- Website live June 2026. The newsletter is older (start date to confirm).
A few tips
- AI invents event links. Every link gets opened and the year on the page gets checked before anything ships.
- The AI brings facts and raw angles. I write every joke.
- Never report a quiet weekend from the automated sweep alone. It once found 18 events and missed about 20 more.
- Never load a code library at "latest" on a live site. The map went blank that way.
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Tools I used for this project
Claude Code: Runs parallel research agents over more than 150 local calendars each Monday and drafts the newsletter sections.
Claude in Chrome: Opens every event link and checks the date is this year.
Beehiiv: Sends the newsletter.
Netlify: Hosts the site and republishes it whenever I change something.
Supabase: Stores reader submissions for the guides.
