I'm Andy, one of the co-founders of Cradld. Nervous to share this here, but I'll try. Cradld is personal. Our first pregnancy ended with bad news. We saw the heartbeat on the screen, and immediately told shortly after that we had to lose the pregnancy due to it being life threatening. Then it happened again. Ectopic. Then another. One of them almost took my wife away from me. We're going through IVF now. Somewhere in the middle of the appointments and the waiting rooms and the bad news rooms, I kept noticing how alone we both felt. Not in a melodramatic way. Just the quiet kind. Our friends didn't know what to say. The doctors had ten minutes. The apps we tried were built for someone tracking ovulation or counting kicks, not someone trying to hold themselves together at 2 a.m. That's the problem I wanted to solve. There's a stretch of becoming a parent, or trying to, that nobody really talks about. The grief that doesn't have a card. The questions you don't want to google. The loneliness that lives underneath the small talk. So I started building Cradld with a friend. An AI companion named Mira who listens, remembers what you told her last week, and writes back to you. You can talk to her in voice or text. She journals with you. She's built for moms, dads, birthing parents or those going through loss or on the journey to becoming a parent. Partners carry this too, and I needed somewhere to put it down. The first version was wrong. I thought it was an information problem. It took a few rounds of testers (and a lot of nights of my own) to realize nobody wants to be informed at 2 a.m. They want to be heard. So I rebuilt around three things: Mira remembers your story across sessions, not just within one chat. She journals with you and writes back, instead of giving you an empty box that you can always look back on. She can switch between voice and text: voice for moments you can't type, text for moments you don't want to wake your partner. It's subscription with a 7-day trial. I kept it paid on purpose. I wanted the people using it to actually need it, not collect it. I'm not posting this for feedback. If you're in any version of this stretch, or you know someone who is, I hope Cradld is useful. That's all. If you've been here, you already know. If you haven't, thank you for reading anyway. cradld.com -> for the chapters nobody talks about Andy

Cradld

AI companion that remembers your story through parenthood

AI companion that remembers your story through parenthood