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Daddy Issues
Think ahead. Fight less. A weekly family briefing for dads.
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Think ahead. Fight less. A weekly family briefing for dads.
22 followers
Daddy Issues uses AI to help dads think ahead before family life turns into last-minute stress. Each week, it connects your kids, calendar, responsibilities and tasks to surface what’s coming up, what you might be missing, and what’s worth handling now. Less reacting, fewer reminders, fewer small fights — and more “I’m already on it.”
Hey Dads 👋
I built Daddy Issues because I kept noticing the same thing in our family:
My wife somehow seemed to know what was coming up. What the kids would need. What we should start thinking about now so it wouldn’t become stressful later.
I wanted to do that too.
I’m an involved dad, but I found thinking ahead surprisingly hard. I’d remember the obvious things, but miss the small connections around them and end up reacting once something was already on the table.
That created friction.
I didn’t want to be the person saying, “Just tell me what needs doing.” I wanted to already know and take more of that mental load on myself. So I built Daddy Issues.
It gives dads a weekly family briefing that connects things like your kids, calendar, responsibilities and previous tasks to surface what you might otherwise only realize later.
It’s not about being perfectly organized. It’s about anticipating a little earlier, taking more ownership, and hopefully avoiding some unnecessary arguments along the way.
It’s completely free for now, and I’m genuinely curious whether this is useful to other dads too. I’d love to hear what it gets right, what it misses, or what you’d change. ❤️
Nice framing, a weekly briefing instead of one more notification feed. The "what you might be missing" part is where this gets hard. How do you decide what is worth surfacing versus noise, and does it learn from what the dad actually acts on? I ask because I am building in the adjacent space of daily check-ins for aging parents, and the same signal-versus-noise problem shows up for the adult kids who are managing it all.
Hey @igorgurovich ,
thanks man. I'll definitely check out your product as well. And yes, you are describing one of the challenges for sure.
Currently the relevancy comes from the information gathered in the onboarding, paired with the connected calendar and location and weather. It's already surprisingly helpful if you ask me, but there is tons (!) of room for growth and improvements obviously. It does learn from the dads feedback on the briefing and from the task dads create and finish - or not finish :)
Best
H
The weekly rhythm feels right for something that's meant to help you think ahead. Connecting the calendar to what needs doing before each event is the part I'd want to see in that briefing.
Hey @oleksii_sekundant
thanks for your thoughts. You can actually connect your calendar (right now only google cal) to your account in the onboarding or in the settings, and Daddy Issues will take your events into account when creating the briefing 🙌 Give it a try and let me know if you found the briefing helpful.
By the way: Briefing will get better the more you use Daddy Issues :)
Best
H