We Built the App We Needed. We Think You Need It Too.

By Pram About Town

We got lost looking for change tables.

A lot.

Sarah, Jess and Tom. Tired parents who learnt the hard way which local cafes had change tables… and which didn’t.

We started talking to other tired parents who gave us their lists of favourite places to take their kids. So, we started a group chat. Places where your pram actually fits through the front door, cafes with high chairs and babycinos, pubs where we could all have dinner, then the kids can go off and play, and the parents can sit back, have a drink and relax.

Pram About Town is that group chat. Tidied up and open to everyone. No gatekeeping here. Just tired parents helping out other tired parents.

What is Pram About Town?

Pram About Town is a map-based database of family-friendly venues, with the details that actually matter:

Change tables
Feeding rooms and nursing chairs
High chairs
Pram-accessibility
Toilets
Kids menus
Boiling Water and microwaves
Indoor and outdoor play areas
Parking

All confirmed. All on the map. All there before you need it.

Why didn't this exist yet?!

We asked ourselves this question so many times.

The nitty-gritty info we needed was out there… sort of. Buried in reviews. Mentioned in the second sentence of a three-year-old blog post. Occasionally on a venue's website.

But no one had gathered it, verified it, and put it on a map. No one had built the thing that answered the question every parent asks before they leave the house: is this place actually going to work for us?

So we built it.

Who we are

Three parents founded Pram About Town after getting tired of learning the hard way on every family outing.

Sarah is our Founder. A mum of two and instigator of the group chat. The one who kept saying, "there should be an app for this". Ex-Architect turned infrastructure consultant who can’t go anywhere without measuring the door width and checking out the bathrooms.

Jess is our COO. Mum to an almost 3yr old, with one more on the way. The one who turned “wouldn’t it be good if…” into a design spec and handed it to the builders. Events producer turned tech operator, still planning everything three steps ahead. Has never arrived anywhere without knowing the menu, the parking situation, and where the pram is going.

Tom is our Lead Developer. A dad of one who makes everything actually work. Tom builds and leads the technical side of Pram About Town: the map, the data, the infrastructure that keeps everything running. He brought the perspective of a dad who wanted to be useful on family outings and discovered that being useful starts with having the right information.

Between the three of us, we have four children, and a deep belief that parents deserve better tools for navigating the world with young children.

What we've been building

We've been working on Pram About Town for the past year - researching, mapping, and verifying venues across Australia. Not just listing them, but actually checking the details. Does the change table exist? Where exactly is the parents' room? Is the entry genuinely pram-accessible, or is there a step that makes it theoretical?

We started in our local area in inner Melbourne. Then, with the support of our family and friends, we expanded across Australia. We’re now sharing with more and more people who want to help grow our database. Hundreds of venues across cafes, pubs, playgrounds, attractions, shopping centres, zoos, swimming centres, libraries, health centres, airports, and more.

And we're adding more every day.

Who Pram About Town is for

It's for the new mum navigating her first cafe outing with a 6-week-old and no idea where the change table is.

It's for the dad taking their toilet-training daughter to the shops and knowing where to take her when she shouts ‘potty’ in the middle of Kmart.

It's for the grandparent who wants to take their grandchildren somewhere special for the day and doesn't know where to start.

It's for the aunty visiting for the weekend, the uncle taking the kids on an adventure, the family visiting Melbourne from Brisbane who just needs to know where to go.

It's for anyone who's ever taken a young child out into the world and needed to know (before they got there) whether the place they were heading to would work.

That's who Pram About Town is for. And if you've read this far, we're pretty sure that's you.

Our why

Because everyone deserves to leave the house with confidence. Whether you're a new parent navigating your first outing with your baby, a grandparent taking the grandkids out for the day, or a family travelling to a new city. You should be able to enjoy your outing with your kids without the unnecessary stress.

Because heaps of great family-friendly venues exist. They’re just hard to find. Change tables, feeding rooms, pram-accessible entries, and high chairs aren’t new. Yet finding a family-friendly cafe halfway between you and your friend’s house is impossible. Let alone figuring out where to park, where to feed your bub, or change that dreaded nappy once you’re already there. We've made it our job to find that nitty-gritty info and put it on a map.

Because it should be easy for EVERYONE who loves and looks after little ones. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, babysitters, au pairs- Pram About Town is for all of you. Whether you use it every day or once a year, we hope we can help lighten the load, so you spend less time figuring out the where and how and more time enjoying the who and the what.

We need you

We're launching soon, and before we do, we want to hear from you.

Sign up to our waitlist, and you'll be:

First to know when Pram About Town launches near you
First to access the app when it goes live
Part of the community that helps shape what we build next

We read every message we receive. We're parents, and we know how much it means when someone actually listens.

Join the waitlist →

And if you have a venue you think should be on Pram About Town (a cafe that always has the high chairs ready and the change table stocked, a pub with a playground that nobody seems to know about, a gem of a parents room that deserves more recognition), tell us about it. We want to know.

Thank you for supporting us

Building something from scratch is hard. Building something from scratch while our kids are asleep is a special kind of hard.

But we really believe in this. And we hope we can make getting out with your little ones that little bit easier.

We're so glad you found us.

Sarah, Jess & Tom

The Pram About Town Team

Pram About Town maps family-friendly venues across Australia with confirmed details on change tables, feeding rooms, high chairs, pram access, and more. Find your next stop before you need it.