Building a product with a newborn and a 9-5. Here's what nobody tells you.
My daughter is 3 months old. I work a full-time job. I'm also building a product. Here's what my "founder journey" actually looks like: — Coding at 5:30am with one eye open — Falling asleep mid-commit — Watching my wife do the hard stuff while I "just need 20 more minutes" — Guilt. Lots of guilt. — Shipping features that took 4 weeks instead of 4 days There's no "wake up at 4am and crush it"...
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...
Build baby tracking app for dads like myself.
New dad here (4 months in, still alive, minimal crying from me). Like a lot of you, I wanted to help track feeds, diapers, sleep — all that stuff. Problem is, my wife tried every app out there and hated them all. Too cluttered, too pink, too much. When I offered to help log stuff, she'd get annoyed because "I was messing up her system." Classic. So I did what any sleep-deprived dad with a...