For my wife,
who does the hard part.
She's the one up every two or three hours through the night. I just know how to make apps, so I made one that might help her a little.
I'm Ryan. I build software for a living — a skill that turns out to be perfectly useless when there's a hungry newborn in the house at 3 AM. The real work — recovering from birth, nursing through the night, pumping every few hours, staying steady on broken sleep — that's all my wife. She does it every day, and most of it without me knowing how.
Three weeks ago she gave birth to the most beautiful baby I've ever seen. Since then I've watched her get up every two or three hours through the night — feed, change, pump, settle the baby back down, then try to sleep again before the next cycle starts. She writes everything down because she wants to take good care of our daughter and she doesn't trust her sleep-deprived brain to remember which side she nursed from last or when the last diaper was wet. She is right not to trust it. Nobody could.
I can't take any of those night shifts off her hands. What I can do is make the writing-it-down part take three seconds instead of three minutes. So I built Honey Bun for her. Voice-first, because her hands are usually full. Synced in real time, so when she logs a feed at 2 AM I can see it on my phone and bring her water without asking. On the lock screen, so she never has to unlock a phone to know when the next feed is due.
It's an honest try at the smallest possible contribution to what she's doing every day. If it lifts even one tap off her, it was worth building. And maybe, for our daughter, it means her mom gets a few extra minutes to look at her instead of at a screen — which, in the end, is the only thing I actually wanted to give them.
Three things, in this order.
No ads, no trackers, no selling data, no training AI on your logs. The only people who see your baby's data are the people you sign in with. Read the policy.
Logging a feed should take three seconds, not three taps and two screens. Every interaction is tuned for "I'm holding a baby and have one hand free."
Live across every caregiver's device. Lock-screen banners. Overnight alarms before windows close. If you're tired enough to forget, the app remembers for you.
Honey Bun isn't a medical device. It doesn't diagnose, it doesn't replace a pediatrician, and it won't tell you whether a rash is serious — that's what your doctor is for. What it does is keep an honest record of what happened, when, and how much, so when you do sit down with your pediatrician you have something better than your sleep-deprived guess.
If you're a parent reading this at 2 AM with a baby on your chest — especially if it's the parent doing the night work — this is for you.
Download on the App StoreAndroid coming soon