It worked because it kept going.
Cake Bake Shop had already been missed twice. For a Mother's Day 2026 trip to Walt Disney World, party of three, every Sunday slot was gone before the search really began.
The workaround was simple and inconvenient: leave a laptop running with a script that checked Disney's reservation page every minute. It kept checking while the family slept, while they went to the pool, and after Disney timed the session out on day one.
On Friday at 4:51 PM, one 12:30 PM Sunday slot opened. The alert fired, the official Disney booking flow opened, and the confirmation email arrived nine seconds after the alert.
The difference was persistence: 2,395 checks over 52 hours, long after a person would have stopped refreshing. SpotSitter publishes its own Cake Bake receipt instead of judging another service from one family's anecdote.
