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priceless might be great for finding someone to move your sofa but care for your kids not so much check out urbansitter calm a website and mobile app that connects parents and caregivers in more than 14 cities with more on the way the site can work one of two ways you can post an ad describing your child and the maximum hourly rate you'll pay for the job and interested sitters will respond or you can sign in through facebook to see if anyone in your network has used one of the sitters it's a way to get recommendations from people you know to connect with the sitter even for an initial over the phone interview will cost $15 each time or you can pay an annual premium to reach out to as many sitters as you like sittercity Calm and Carry calm work in a similar fashion but both are more widely available nationwide they also specialize on placing nannies for longer term care and the latter can even help you find pet sitters or housekeepers neither these sites tap into social networks like urbansitter but they are longer established and appear to have millions of happy parents on their side in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News