Daycares and boarding
A ziplock bag, a bottle with a label somebody has written over, and a drop-off conversation at 7am with a queue behind it. Then it is 9:30pm, the closer has gone home, and the only record that the dose went in is a whiteboard that gets wiped in the morning.
They send a link instead. It opens in whatever browser is already on the phone in your pocket, shows what is due and when, and takes an answer in one tap.
Boarding kennels are where we started, because they get handed the hardest version of this several times a week. The page is the same one for the childcare centre giving a midday dose, a school office, a home health aide, a neighbour with a key, the friend staying while you travel, or the relative who has the spare room — anybody made responsible for a dose without being given anything to be responsible with.
What they open
This is deliberately not an app for you. Staff turn over, phones are personal, and a login is a thing that stops working at the worst possible hour. It is a web page behind a link.
Open the link and the page is already the medications. There is nothing to sign in to, so there is nothing to reset at 9:30 on a Sunday, and no staff phone has to have anything on it.
The name of whoever you are looking after, the next dose with its time and the medications in it, and today's doses with the ones already given marked. Below that, their household's own emergency instructions, the rescue medication if there is one, and a button that dials the number they chose — their vet, or their doctor.
Gave it writes a real dose into their record — the same record their own phone writes to — and every phone in their household stops asking about it. They are on a beach and they know.
The link answers doses and writes to the day's record. It cannot change the schedule, add or remove medications, see the household's settings, or reach anything else in their account. That is enforced on the server rather than asked politely of the browser — you are holding a credential, and it should be worth as little as possible.
They turn it on at handover and off when they're back — not a date they had to predict on Thursday, so a flight delay does not kill the link while you still need it. There is a thirty-day cap on it regardless, so one forgotten in a text thread stops mattering on its own.
When they get home they switch it off, and your last screen is a thank-you rather than an error — including what you did and where it went. A link that has been turned off deliberately and one that was never real look identical, so a link that leaks tells nobody anything.
Everything confirmed on that page is in their history from the moment it is tapped, and it is in the medication record they hand across a counter at the next appointment. You are not keeping a parallel log that somebody has to transcribe, and a question three weeks later about the Tuesday of the stay has an answer that is not anybody's memory.
A dose can carry the name they put on the link, so they know who to thank. There are no per-person statistics anywhere in this product, for owners or for you — the dose is the subject, never the person.
The page is the same page for anyone holding the link, so a shift change is not a handover conversation about whether the 4pm went in. It is on the screen.
It asks search engines not to index it and browsers not to pass it on in a referrer. Visitor addresses are hashed rather than stored, which is enough to notice a link being passed around and not enough to be a location history.
Worth being straight about how this works: the household holds the account and creates the link. You don't run software, you don't administer anything, and there is no per-facility setup — which is the point, because the alternative is asking a business to onboard for one boarder with epilepsy.
So if this would help, the thing to do is tell them it exists. When somebody books a stay for anyone on medication, ask them to send a care link for the dates. Everything above is what you get.
What it does underneath doesn't change. The problem it is pointed at does.
One schedule and nobody behind it. There is no one else for it to reach, so it comes back to you instead of going quiet.
A kid's tablet before school, your mother's, the dog's, your own. More than one of you can give it, which is what makes it possible for nobody to.
They live somewhere else. You want to know the dose happened without asking them to account for themselves.
It's in private testing. There is nowhere to download it yet.