Holiday Optimizer
A small web tool that helps you spend your annual leave smartly. Line up paid days off with public holidays and weekends for the most consecutive time off.
The Problem
Planning holidays around public holidays is a small but real optimisation problem. Most people eyeball a calendar, miss the non-obvious bridges, and end up using more leave for less time off. A dedicated tool does the arithmetic in a second.
The Approach
Keep the scope tight on purpose: pick a country, enter how many leave days you have, get a suggested plan back. No accounts, no saved state, no feed.
- One screen. No multi-step wizard.
- Optimise for consecutive days off, what people actually care about, not total days off.
- Show the plan visually on a calendar. The optimisation only lands if you can see it.
- Free and public.
Suggested leave days sit alongside public holidays on a single calendar view.
Outcome
A compact, useful tool that does one thing well. It sits alongside the bigger projects in the portfolio as evidence that small can also be well-executed: scoping ruthlessly, turning a dull spreadsheet task into a readable, visual answer.