Shortlist, a childcare search engine I built as a non-engineer

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Shortlist — Tour three, not thirty.

Tour three,<br>not thirty.

Every daycare, preschool, and home program in your city — researched, compared, and ready for your first visit.

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// provider pages, 99.6% of the sitemap, which are<br>reachable no other way: a sitemap says a URL exists, a link says it matters.<br>They lived inside the seven ledger pages until 2026-08-10; the ledger is being<br>retired, so they live here instead — highest-authority page, one hop from the<br>root, and it outlives the surface it was borrowed from.<br>Two gates hold this: `orphaned_surface` in tools/site-invariants-check.mjs<br>asserts a static link exists at all, and check 10 in<br>tools/city-registry-drift-check.mjs asserts this list is exactly the live set.<br>DO NOT render it in JS — a link drawn after load is invisible to a crawler,<br>which is the defect that orphaned all 5,635 pages in the first place. -->

Every licensed program, city by city

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Built by Diana Clemons, a senior product leader with 15 years in data and analytics.

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