Awaywell: time off requests, approvals and balances for a small company

Awaywell: time off requests, approvals and balances for a small company

00 Markdown

Request time off, approve it with a comment, track balances by type, and see who is out on a live team calendar with .ics feeds.

Agent specs

Agent
Claude Code, Opus 5.5 Medium
Time
14 min
Cost
$5.08*

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* Cost at API rates, September 2026.

Run it yourself

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Install elements: curl -fsSL 'https://install.elements.dev?os=darwin' | sh && export PATH=~/elements/bin:$PATH Create an Elements app from the elementscode/demo-awaywell scaffold: cd ~/elements/projects elements create awaywell -scaffold=elementscode/demo-awaywell cd awaywell Start the app.

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The prompt

The exact prompt that built this app. Give it to your agent to build the app from scratch with Elements, or use it to compare what other tools make from the same ask.

Build a time off app named awaywell for a company of about twenty people.

Two kinds of accounts: employee and manager. Each employee has one manager.

EMPLOYEE
- Request time off: type (vacation, sick, personal), dates, a note.
- See their balance per type, and their requests with status.
- Cancel a pending request.

MANAGER
- Approve or deny their reports' requests with a comment.
- Team calendar: a month view of who is out, colored by type.

Everyone gets an email when a request is approved or denied, and managers get
one when a request comes in. Each person has a private calendar feed url
(.ics) of approved time off to subscribe to in their calendar app.

Seed two managers, ten employees, balances, and requests across this month and
next in every status. Show the seeded logins on the sign-in page.

New requests and approvals update the calendar in real time.

The code

https://github.com/elementscode/demo-awaywell MIT license View on GitHub →

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