Calm over clever
One toggle. Zero badges, streaks, or dopamine traps.
ParentPod began with missed 3am messages, forgotten feeds, and two tired parents trying to reconstruct the same night. I built one shared place for the day so the next person could simply pick up.
Our son was born on a Tuesday. By Friday, my partner and I had a group chat with ourselves titled “the baby facts” where we frantically typed times and ounces we’d never remember. We kept missing each other’s messages. We kept logging the same feed twice. I remember thinking: this is a software problem dressed up as a parenting problem.
I’ve been building software for a decade — most recently as an independent engineer running Beyond Volatility. When my parental leave started, I didn’t mean to start a company. I meant to get some sleep. The baby trackers I tried were good at recording events, but none made the handoff between two parents, a grandparent across town, or the sitter on Tuesday feel natural.
So I started building the tool my own family needed. Voice logging, because my hands were always full. Shift handoffs, because we kept losing updates in group texts. Pod Coach, because answers are more useful when they point back to your own logs. And a quiet interface, because an exhausted parent does not need another noisy dashboard.
That tool became ParentPod. My family still uses it every day. And now I’m sharing it with yours.
If you’re in the weeds with a newborn right now — I see you. I built this for us.
“Parenting is a team sport. It was time the software caught up.”
I’m building one private timeline for the whole care team around your child. It should take remembering off one person’s plate, make handoffs easier, and turn daily logs into useful context.
From a 3am text to a product my family still uses every day.
The text that started it. My partner and I were losing shift handoffs in a group chat with ourselves.
Voice logging, because my hands were always full. Shared timeline, because spreadsheets aren't a family.
My own family used it first. Every rough edge got polished under real 3am conditions — not a design studio.
ParentPod is live, free to start, and the app I still check before my morning coffee.
One toggle. Zero badges, streaks, or dopamine traps.
Built shared-first. Works for two people in the same room.
We don’t sell it, don’t train on it. One-tap export and deletion.
Pod Coach points back to the family logs behind each response.
Rock builds ParentPod at Beyond Volatility, uses it with his own family, and answers support email personally.
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