In 2021, when COVID vaccine appointments were first becoming available, I wanted to get one as soon as I could. I built a bot to check when appointments were available, and then turned it into a twitter bot so others could follow it. Thousands of people used KC Vaccine Watch to find their vaccine appointments in Kansas City.

In 2022, it made a resurgence to find COVID test appointments, when those became hard to find too.

See some of the media coverage of KC Vaccine Watch: