Originally posted on TechCrunch:
While there's no shortage of mobile calendaring applications on today's App Store, most are designed to serve the needs of office workers who need to carve out time for things like conference calls or meetings. A new calendaring app called Shifts, launching today on iTunes, is instead focused on a different demographic: those employees who work in shifts, like nurses, servers, dispatchers, plant workers, and more.
The app allows users to more easily track and schedule their shifts, share their schedule with family and friends, and even estimate their monthly earnings.
Shifts was built by a company called Snowman, which was co-founded in 2012 by Ryan Cash and childhood friend Jordan Rosenberg. Snowman today has already has a few successful apps on the App Store including reminder app Checkmark and a memory game called Circles, that was recently offered as Starbucks' free app of the week.
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