employkids
Hire your kids so they can retire millionaires (legally)
Details
- External ID
- 46799585
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- employkids
- Website domain
- employkids.com
- Launched
- Jan. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
The IRS lets you hire and pay your kids for real work. That earned income can go into a Roth IRA and grow tax-free. $4k/year from age 10-18 becomes over $1M by retirement. The catch? Paperwork. Agreements, work logs, payment records. Most parents never bother because it's annoying. employkids makes it easy.
Enrichment
- Theme
- financial and labor market data tools
- Vertical
- HR & recruiting
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- legal employment for minors
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Employkids is a straightforward administrative record-keeping web application offering templates, work logs, payment tracking, and PDF summary exports for parents.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 90 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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