Childcare calculator: Why a static page, and why not a spreadsheet - Part 1
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Childcare costs are one of those bills that look simple until you try to predict them. A childminder charges an hourly rate. You book some days. The government funds some of the hours. Bank holidays don't count. And somehow the number on the invoice is never the number you guessed.
I wanted a way to type in my setup and see the month's cost, day by day, before the invoice arrived. This post is about the first decision: what to build it with, and what the first version actually did.
