Help us keep good recommendations moving.
REC'D BY was built to solve a very real family problem: "Do you know someone good?" Our goal is to keep the core experience free — and keep expanded membership accessible, not another expensive subscription. But keeping the lights on still costs money.
What your support helps fund
REC'D BY is independently built and maintained. Optional contributions help support the real costs behind the service, including:
Development
Building new features and continuing to improve the app and website.
Hosting + infrastructure
Keeping household information, recommendations, calendars, and bookings available when families need them.
Email + SMS
Delivering invitations, booking requests, confirmations, reminders, and updates.
Security + privacy
Maintaining the infrastructure and tools necessary to protect household information.
Maintenance
Keeping REC'D BY working as operating systems, browsers, APIs, and third-party services change.
Accessibility
Continuing to improve the experience for families and caregivers with different accessibility needs.
The next good idea
Expanding REC'D BY beyond babysitting, pet sitting, and house sitting to more of the trusted people who help households run.
Completely optional. Genuinely appreciated.
You don't have to donate to use REC'D BY's free features. Period. If REC'D BY saves you from one frantic group text, one forgotten recommendation, or one night of endlessly scrolling through sitter profiles, and you'd like to help us continue building it, we'd be grateful.
Suggested support amounts may be displayed at checkout, or you can choose the amount that's right for you.
A note from Nicole
REC'D BY started because I needed it. I built it during nap times after realizing that the recommendations I trusted most were already sitting in my friends' phones — I just needed a better way to find and organize them. My goal has always been to create something genuinely useful for families. Every membership, contribution, recommendation, and friend who joins the village helps make that possible. Thank you for supporting REC'D BY.
— Nicole
Founder + Mom
Good people, recommended by your people.
A quick tax note
Unless expressly stated otherwise, contributions to REC'D BY are payments supporting a for-profit service and are not charitable contributions or tax-deductible donations.