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Milk Monster
The baby tracker two parents actually share, live
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The baby tracker two parents actually share, live
19 followers
Milk Monster is a calm, shared baby tracker built for two parents — log feeds, sleep, diapers and pumping in one tap, and every caregiver sees it live, in real time. Free to start. And it’s not just your phone — sign in at my.milkmonster.app to see the whole week as charts on your laptop, and print a clean one-pager for the pediatrician.
Curious how the real-time sync handles spotty wifi or one parent being offline at a late-night feed. Does it just queue the entry and catch up, or could we end up with duplicate logs for the same 3am bottle?
@melahat61212 Straight answer on both. Duplicates: every entry is its own record signed by whoever logged it, so if you and your partner both tapped that 3am bottle you'd get two entries (each with a name), not a silent merged duplicate — delete one in a tap and you're set. Offline: right now you need a connection to log; true offline (save it on your phone, sync when you're back on) is the #1 thing I'm building next, because a bad-signal 3am feed is exactly when it matters most. Is offline a dealbreaker or a nice-to-have for you? Genuinely shapes how fast I ship it.
How does the real-time sync actually work if my partner and I both have the app open at the same time, does it need a strong connection or will it catch up later when one of us is offline?
@nurtenglerh4ra When you're both connected it's genuinely live — log a feed and it shows up on your partner's phone about a second later over a websocket, no refresh. It doesn't need a strong connection to feel instant, just a working one. Honest gap: it's online-first today, so if one of you is fully offline it won't hold the log and sync it later yet — that's top of my roadmap. Appreciate you digging into the actual mechanics.
Finally a baby tracker my partner and I can both update without texting each other at 2am. The one-tap logging is genuinely fast, and seeing the week as charts on the laptop made our pediatrician visit way easier.
@idemod4m This is literally the whole reason it exists — the 2am "did you feed her?" text was our life. Really glad the laptop view helped at the pediatrician; that one-pager was Alyssa's push and it's turned into a lot of people's favorite part. Thank you for this.
the live sync between two phones is genuinely useful, not just a checkbox feature. love that you thought about the laptop view and the printable weekly summary too, that's the kind of stuff that actually gets used at 3am when everything's blurry.
@idemerhzlkndl "Not just a checkbox feature" might be the nicest thing you could say — that was the whole bar. The 3am-everything's-blurry moment is exactly who I built the big-picture view and printable summary for, so it means a lot they landed. Thank you.
the one-tap logging across four different activities is such a thoughtful call when you're half asleep at 3am, and the live sync between two parents means no awkward "did you already log that?" texts. nice work.
Finally a tracker my partner and I can both see without texting each other at 3am. The one-pager for the pediatrician is honestly the detail I didn't know I needed.