AutoRota

Clinical rotas arrive as dense spreadsheets that every doctor manually re-types into their calendar — then re-types again when the rota inevitably changes. Having lived this as a doctor, I built AutoRota to make the rota itself the thing you interact with.

AutoRota imports a rota in seconds, syncs it live to your calendar, and lets you customise shifts and print clean views. It's built with Next.js and TypeScript, with a React Native companion app in development.

Domain knowledge is the moat here. Rota spreadsheets are wildly inconsistent between hospitals, shift codes are local dialects, and the pain points — swaps, last-minute changes, contract compliance — are invisible unless you've worked the shifts yourself. Being both the builder and the user meant the roadmap wrote itself.

The roadmap centres on collaboration: conversational rota updates, syncing with friends' rotas to find shared free time, structured shift swaps, and automatic checking of rotas against contract rules — turning AutoRota from a personal utility into the place a cohort of doctors coordinates.