u/nextmomi

A few months ago my girlfriend and I became first-time parents and honestly… we were overwhelmed.

Feedings, naps, diapers, pumping, medicine — after a few sleepless nights we kept asking each other the same questions:

“When did the baby last eat?”
“How long has she been sleeping?”
“Did you already log that or was it me?”

We tried notes apps, paper notes, reminders, even texting each other updates. Nothing felt simple enough for exhausted parents half asleep at 3am.

So I started building a baby tracker app at night after work.

Main focus was:

• real-time sync between both parents
• extremely fast logging
• simple UI without overwhelming screens
• AI insights/sleep predictions

It started as something only for us, but now random parents from other countries are actually using it which feels surreal.

Still super early (~300 total downloads), but it’s been one of the most motivating side projects I’ve worked on.

One thing I learned building B2C: parents don’t care about “features”. They care about reducing stress and saving mental energy.

Curious if anyone else here is building products based on problems from their real daily life rather than market research alone.

When our baby was born, my girlfriend and I were completely overwhelmed trying to keep track of feedings, sleep, and notes. Because of that, I started building a simple app in the evenings that helps both parents track the baby’s routine at the same time. Curious if anyone else would find something like this useful?

launched a Baby Tracker - Soriva app a couple months ago after becoming parents ourselves.

At first it was just a side project to track feeding, sleep, diapers etc. because we hated using notes and spreadsheets.

We slowly kept adding features like:

• sleep predictions
• caregiver syncing
• AI insights
• notifications
• growth tracking

Right now we’re still tiny:

• ~300 total downloads
• a few paying subscribers
• some daily active users
• starting to get organic installs from App Store search

Honestly the hardest part isn’t building the app anymore — it’s distribution and marketing.

Curious what worked best for other app founders here:

• TikTok?
• Reddit?
• Meta ads?
• ASO?
• influencers?

Would love to hear what gave you your first real growth.