The biggest update this place has ever had
CaregiverBabyHub, Re-Imagined
The clock has not started yet. When it does, it runs for fourteen days and then all of this opens at the same moment. Watch for it here.
A word from the person who builds this
I have spent the whole summer rebuilding this place from the floor up. The name on the door stayed. Almost nothing behind it did.
Today a small group of members starts testing it with me, and over the next little while I will be fixing what they find. When the clock above runs out, it all opens at the same moment for everyone. No drip-feed.
I am keeping a couple of things for the day itself. The list below is everything else. It is long. Get a bottle.
The main site, rebuilt from the floor up
Every My Dynamic page got torn down and rebuilt around the one thing you came to do. Rules opens on the rules. The tracker logs in one tap. The journal is a page for writing. Then I kept going.
- Nursery Automations. Your dynamic can finally answer what you log. Miss a drink on a work day and a reminder comes. Finish a streak and the reward you agreed to lands by itself. When this, then that, written by you or your caregiver.
- Right Now. The site knows what you are doing at this moment and shows your person the same. Nothing to type.
- Households. Away and home. House chores that belong to the house and not a person. A supply shelf that knows how many diapers are in the cupboard. A repair flow for after something went wrong. And the Sunday sit-down, a weekly ten minutes where the two of you look at the week together.
- Contracts that can change. Either of you proposes an amendment, both of you sign, the history is kept with a diff of exactly what moved. Solo littles amend their own.
- The safeword reaches every caregiver you have, every time, whichever app you said it in.
- Little Insights, a contract with yourself, a current-diaper glance on the dashboard, screen-time as a log type, one level ladder instead of two, and a settings page where every setting actually lives.
- A hand-made landing page, a real type scale, real icons, buttons that read out properly on a screen reader, and Companion Plain and Companion Play as site themes. I wanted the place to read like somebody decided it. Somebody did.
- And the quiet stuff. Your day runs on your own clock now, not the server's. A network blip never wipes your data on the way through. Bells that were silently failing for weeks now arrive. I found more of those than I would like to admit.
Solo littles. The heart of the whole thing
Most accounts here have no caregiver. For a long time the site quietly treated that as a waiting room. It is not one any more. The caregiver's whole toolkit got turned inward so that you can hold yourself, with real consequences you set while you were clear-headed.
- The self-caregiver page. One room for the whole arrangement: your contract with yourself, the Sunday setup, your rules, your week.
- Pre-authorised consequences and pre-signed permission slips. You decide in advance, then the site holds you to it, including the locked decision you cannot talk yourself out of at 11pm.
- An AI caregiver who holds the rules. She answers May I from your own policy. She writes your week on Sunday. She starts the conversation when you have gone quiet. She notices the things you do not. She has a persona you design and a quiet mode when you need it.
- Guided entry and exit, bedtime as a ceremony, thirty-day programmes, decision-free mode, and a day you did not have to write yourself.
- Letters from past-you. A freeze with a reason. The honest mirror. Owning up. Send yourself to corner time. A future-self veto for the moments you know are coming.
- The PIN vault. Parental controls for a little who runs their own dynamic: the settings, rules and limits you lock away behind a PIN, so little-you cannot quietly undo what big-you decided. Your caregiver can hold the PIN, or you can hand it to future-you.
- Account-abili-babies. Two babies, paired up, holding each other to their own rules. You see each other's rules and check-ins, you nudge, you cheer, you ask why the bedtime got missed. Real members only. Nobody here is simulated and nobody ever will be.
The Little Companion, and a real Android app
A phone app on its own site that turns your whole day into one timeline. It is mostly for putting things in, fast, from wherever you are. The big site is for reading. This one is for the hallway, the car park and the supermarket queue.
- One-tap logging, plain-words typing, the morning check-in, a change assistant that learns your rhythm, meals and drinks and can I have this, and May I from anywhere.
- The diaper bag. A packing list that knows where you are going, supplies that count down as you use them, and a check-out when you leave the house with a home-safe press when you are back. Open trips for when you do not know how long. Safety first if you are late, always.
- Jobs, chores, routines, comfort and grounding, owning up, a chat with the AI caregiver that is the same chat as the main site, and a caregiver face for the person who holds you.
- A discreet face, a quick hide, a toy phone, work mode, driving mode and pause. It is built to survive being seen.
- A fully native Android app. No wrapped web page. Home screen and lock screen widgets in several sizes: quick-log buttons, day progress with chores, Now and Next, and a home-by countdown.
- NFC stickers you program in the app. Tap the one on the changing table and it is logged. Tap the one by the door and you are checked out. A home fence that notices when you leave and come back. A watch tile. Hooks for Tasker and smart-home people.
iPhone friends: yours is being built
The Android app comes first because it is the one I could finish first, and it will take its bruises out in the open. The iPhone version is in progress and you will hear here the moment it is ready. In the meantime the web Companion already works on iPhone, widgets aside, so nobody is locked out of the day.
The Dock
A wall or counter display for your home. Think of an Echo Show for the nursery. An old tablet on a stand, always on, glanceable from across the room, changing its face through the day.
- Five swipeable pages. Scenes that move through morning, day, evening and a night face you can actually read at 3am.
- A guest mode that turns it into an innocent clock and photo frame with one gesture.
- The five baby buttons. The caregiver corner. The baby monitor on the wall.
- The AI caregiver on the wall, an AI day planner each morning your caregiver can approve, a weekly summary on Sundays, and celebrations with chimes when chores land.
- A jukebox and an arcade, because a wall in a nursery should not be all business.
The Schoolhouse
It grew up. Or down, depending on how you look at it.
- A real grade ladder, twelve new courses, school clubs, a school store with allowance, picture day and a yearbook, and study buddies.
- The teacher's class roster, and monthly report cards your caregiver signs and returns with a note. Solo littles sign their own.
- Courses fix themselves without a wait, reopening a finished lesson keeps it finished, and the homework bell finally links somewhere real.
The Nursery
The community site, folded into thirteen homes instead of a sprawl, with a few things that were quietly broken now quietly working.
- The Fridge Door, a noticeboard for the whole nursery. Daily activity anchors. New-since-your-last-visit markers so a returning member can see what moved.
- Creating an event works. It had not, for anyone, ever. It does now.
- Profiles show role, tier and level again, load-more on long rooms, and parental controls that fail safe.
The rest of the neighbourhood
Every site members actually use got a pass: one small new thing each, and a stack of repairs.
- Daycare: a take-home daily sheet written from the day's real logs, and tomorrow's plan showing after close.
- The Library: proper ranked search with stemming and highlights, and an Article of the Week that really rotates.
- The Nursery Times: a tidier front page and a Keep Reading footer under every article.
- The Baby Monitor: a stream that stays connected (it was reconnecting every few seconds for weeks and nobody could see why), and the little can see who is watching.
- The Clubhouse: a since-you-were-last-here card, and bells that actually arrive.
- The Diaper Bag: saved trips in Pack My Bag, and pockets that were invisible on some phones are visible again.
- Untraining, explained and lighter, with an honest way to switch it off.
- The Parlor: pick the questionnaire up where you left off.
Things people have asked
When, exactly?
There is a clock on the countdown page. When I start it, it runs for fourteen days, and when it reaches zero everything above opens at the same moment. No staggered rollout, no waiting list. If the clock on that page is not running yet, it has not started.
Does any of this cost money?
No. Free accounts lose nothing and gain most of what is above. The paid tiers get the AI pieces and the Dock's headliners, the same way they do today.
Do I keep my stuff?
Yes. Same account, same data, nothing to move. Your logs, your rules, your contract and your dynamic carry straight over. A few things get a new home on the page and the old links still land.
Android and iPhone?
Android is a real installable app at launch. iPhone is being built and the web Companion works there today. If you want to test the Android build early, ask in Help and I will add you when there is room.
Is it still 18+?
Always. Consenting adults only, everywhere on here, same as the day it opened.
See you when the clock runs out
Until then the site you know is right where you left it, and the sprout on the countdown page will tell you the moment the timer starts.
For consenting adults 18+. Always.