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Shift scheduling that understands plain English
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Shift scheduling that understands plain English
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Building a staff schedule manually takes hours. Getting it right, covering every shift while respecting labor rules, certifications, and individual contracts, often takes much longer. Daywatch does it in one click. Describe your rules in plain language. Workers share their preferences the same way. The AI reads everything and generates a fully optimized schedule adapted to your team's exact needs, automatically. Built for any team that runs on shifts.
Hey everyone! 👋
I’m Moran, the founder of Daywatch.
Whenever I tell people I built a shift scheduling platform, the first question is always: "Aren't there already dozens of scheduling tools out there?"
The answer is yes.
But almost every manager I spoke with, whether running a nursing department, a security team, or a retail floor, was still managing their shifts in Excel and chaotic WhatsApp groups.
🛑 Why existing tools fail real teams
Most scheduling tools are rigid boxes. They assume every team operates like a textbook case study.
In reality, no two teams have the same rules. One team has strict union agreements on turnaround times. Another has specific seniority preferences or mandatory skill mixes for night shifts. The moment a software tool can't handle a team's unique quirks, managers give up on it and go right back to spreadsheets.
💡 What we do differently at Daywatch
We don’t force your team into a rigid template. We use AI to customize the scheduling engine around how your specific team actually works:
🧩 Tailored rules in plain words: Tell the system your constraints in plain English (e.g., "Nobody works night shift then morning shift within 12 hours", or "Always pair a junior guard with a senior"). The AI turns those into hard scheduling logic specifically for your organization.
⚡ Schedules that actually work on the first try: It builds the roster around worker availability, fairness, and your exact compliance rules without manual puzzle-solving.
📱 Workers don’t need another app: Shifts, open-shift broadcasts, and swap requests go straight to workers on WhatsApp and email. They can claim an open shift in one tap without downloading anything.
🔄 Fast coverage when someone calls in sick: The system instantly finds qualified, available replacements who won't trigger overtime violations.
🚢 Built with real operators (and shipping every week)
We didn’t build Daywatch in a vacuum. We’ve been developing this hand-in-hand with operations managers in security, logistics, and healthcare. Every edge case, rule type, and solver optimization comes from real-world shift breakdowns.
You can see how rapidly we iterate and check out everything we’ve rolled out recently in our public changelog:
👉 daywatch.tech/changelog
🎁 For the Product Hunt community
We’re offering 25% off Daywatch Pro for life for the first 50 teams who sign up from Product Hunt using code:
👉 `PRODUCTHUNT`
💬 I'd love your thoughts
You can try it out directly at daywatch.tech
If you manage a shift-based team (or have ever suffered under a messy shift roster), I’d love to hear how you currently handle scheduling and where the biggest headaches are.
I’ll be here all day to answer questions, take feedback, and chat! 🚀
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I can definitely see hospitals loving this. Every team defaults right back to Excel and WhatsApp the second a tool gets rigid. Not forcing staff to download an app is huge IMHO.
Congrats on shipping, Moran! 🍻
Thank you @sagi! You hit the nail on the head.
That exact "Excel & WhatsApp retreat" is what we kept seeing over and over. In hospitals and complex shift environments, the second a tool tries to force teams into a rigid box, managers abandon it and go right back to spreadsheets.
We built Daywatch specifically to bend around each team's unique operational quirks, fatigue rules, and labor laws - rather than expecting them to change how they run their operation.
Really appreciate the support and kind words! 🍻