Why I’m building this.

I’m a solo developer building this for a kid I haven’t met yet.

We’re expecting our first daughter. Some time in the months between finding out and now, I started thinking about everything I want to tell her. Not in some ceremonial way, just the regular stuff. What I was working on the day we found out she existed. What her grandfather sounds like when he tells a story. What her mother thinks about, the day before her birth. The small things I’ll forget by the time she’s old enough to ask.

I wanted her to have something like a daily podcast from us. From me, from her mom, from her grandparents and the people who’ll help raise her. Not a finished thing, not a polished thing, just the regular voices of the people who love her, recorded for the version of her who can listen.

I looked for the product that would do this and didn’t find one I’d want to use. The closest things were either baby books that nobody actually fills out, or AI legacy products built around mortality, or photo apps that capture moments but not voice. None of them got the part that mattered: the daily recording habit, the years-long compounding, and the recipient framing. That this is for her, when she’s old enough, in her own time.

So I’m building it. The first version is just an iOS app and a way to record. The harder part, the part I care about more, is the commitment to keep what you record safe, in your hands, in an open format, in a way that survives whether or not the company does. That work is on the Trust page.

If you’re somewhere in the same place we were a year ago, join the list and I’ll let you know when it’s ready.