I built a baby tracking app with mental health breaks for dads. Looking for honest feedback.
4 months ago my daughter Emma was born. Like most of you, my wife and I couldn't remember anything through the sleep deprivation. Who fed her last? When was the last diaper? No idea.
I tried Huckleberry, Baby Buddy, a few others. They're good apps. But I'm a developer, and I wanted something specific that I couldn't find:
An app that tells me "you're doing fine" instead of just showing me charts.
73% of millennial dads report parenting anxiety. I'm one of them. Every app showed me data but none of them helped with the "am I screwing this up?" feeling.
So I built Dad Co-Pilot. The main things that make it different:
"Is this normal?" insights based on CDC/AAP guidelines. Not just "5 feeds today" but "5 feeds today—that's right on track for this age."
Mental health breaks built in. Breathing exercises, stretches for baby-carrying tension, and a daily dad joke because sometimes you just need to laugh.
Partner sync without leaderboards or competition. Just "last feed was 2 hours ago."
It's free to download. There's a premium tier but the core tracking is free.
I posted about this before and got roasted for some fair reasons—I made it sound like no other apps exist, which isn't true. Huckleberry and Baby Buddy are solid. This is just my take on what I wanted as an anxious new dad.
If you try it, I'd genuinely love feedback. What's missing? What's annoying? What would make it actually useful for you?
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