Care, found. Care, given.
A trusted caregiving marketplace for Austria — linking caregivers, families, and the people they love. Everyday Pflege at home, and the respite hours families desperately need.
The problem
Austria relies on families — ~950,000 informal carers shoulder Pflege at home while formal services face staff shortages and long waitlists. Finding trustworthy relief is slow, opaque, and frightening. When an Angehörigenpfleger just needs four hours off, there's rarely anywhere safe to turn.
The solution
Kindred matches Pflege needs to verified caregiver skills in minutes — escrowed SEPA payments, digital contracts, and family oversight. Built for Austria's familial care model. Warm by design, safe by default.
Needs meet skills, filtered by location, availability, price & preference.
Background checks, ID, references, two-way reviews.
SEPA funds held safely via Stripe Connect EU, released after care is delivered.
"4 hours this Saturday" — Instant Book for urgent relief.
Who it's for
Professionals & volunteers. Build a verified profile, browse the job board, get booked, get paid.
Profile · Jobs · EarningsElderly people & those with disabilities. Post needs, browse caregivers, invite, book — independently or with family.
Requests · Browse · BookAlready caring full-time. Find short-term relief, manage a loved one's account, oversee care as it happens.
Respite · Proxy · OversightHow it works
Describe the care you need, or search verified caregivers nearby.
Get scored recommendations, invite or apply, chat in-app.
Pick a time, accept the digital contract, pay into escrow.
Check-in/out, a shared care journal, then a two-way review.
Trust & safety
Mandatory polizeiliches Ersuchen & ID verification. No verification, no bookings.
Every booking, in writing. Clear scope, clear terms.
GPS check-in/out visible to family — opt-in, never forced.
One tap alerts contacts & platform, reachable from every screen.
Special-category health data under EU law — encrypted, audited, exportable, erasable. Austrian data residency option.
Reporting tools and an admin dispute workflow with refunds.
Wireframes · Web
Three of the core web screens. Full annotated set for all roles + admin lives in design/wireframes/WIREFRAMES.md.
Wireframes · Mobile (React Native)
Large targets, voice input, high-contrast mode, SOS always one tap away.
Wireframes · Admin
Business model
15–20% platform fee on each booking, held in escrow and released after care.
Priority matching, dedicated support, and oversight tools for recurring needs.
Optional liability coverage per booking via partners.
Roadmap
The team
Four specialists working in parallel — design, web, mobile, and platform — to deliver Kindred from first prototype through MVP, native apps, and Austria launch in ~21 weeks.
Platform architecture, secure payments, matching, messaging, and EU hosting — everything that powers the marketplace.
The public site, member dashboards, and admin — built to the signed design, polished and accessible.
Native apps with the same core flows as web — for caregivers and families on the go.
Figma design system, hi-fi screens, clickable prototype, and ongoing product direction.
Development phases
Seven phases, delivered by the full team — with design reviews and your approval at each major milestone.
Architecture
Web on Next.js 15 (App Router) + TypeScript + Tailwind, with a WebGL hero. Mobile on React Native (Expo) — one talent pool, fast to parity. Both consume the same REST API.
Payload v3 embedded in Next — CMS, auth, admin, profiles, forum, resources, media. Next.js Route Handlers as the thin transactional layer — bookings, SEPA escrow, matching, Socket.io realtime. PostgreSQL + Prisma. One deploy, no second backend.
Content, user profiles, RBAC, admin UI, forum, resources, media uploads.
Bookings, calendar, escrow payments, rule-based + realtime matching, care journal events.
Hetzner dedicated · Plesk · output: standalone · EU data residency · sharp image loader.
Kindred
Let's build something that genuinely helps Austrian families and caregivers — beautiful, trustworthy, and safe.