I launched FamilyHero - an AI that surfaces your family's events so you don't have to track them manually

Hey IH,

Day 1 of FamilyHero. Here's the honest version.

What it is

FamilyHero connects to your Gmail and automatically surfaces family-relevant events from your email - school emails, doctor appointments, flight and hotel confirmations, after-school activity schedules, trips - and adds them to a shared family calendar both parents see in real time.

No manual entry. No forwarding emails. No "did you see that appointment confirmation?"

Why I built it

Family life generates a lot of email. School events, the pediatrician follow-up, the football club schedule, the flight itinerary for the trip. All of it arrives alongside everything else. The result: things get missed. Appointments get double-booked. One parent ends up carrying all the mental load of tracking everything.

I was that parent. I built the tool I needed.

A use case I didn't expect

Once we launched, I started hearing from divorced and separated parents. Their version of this problem is harder: schools send one email to one address. The other parent, in a different household, often has no idea there's a school play on Friday unless someone manually tells them.

FamilyHero works for this because each parent connects their own email account. When school sends a permission slip to Mom's email, FamilyHero surfaces it automatically - Dad sees it on the shared calendar without Mom having to forward anything. Both parents stay in the loop. No manual coordination.

I've since looked at the existing co-parenting apps (OurFamilyWizard, TalkingParents, 2Houses). None of them automatically detect events from email. They all require manual calendar entry. That's the gap FamilyHero fills for this audience.

Where I am

Just launched. Zero paying customers. A few early users from my own network on the free plan. The product works - the AI surfaces events reliably across the main email types. What I don't have yet is traffic or a repeatable acquisition channel.

The hardest thing to get right

Trust. Asking a parent to connect their Gmail to an AI is a meaningful ask, and it should be. We've been very deliberate about scope: FamilyHero filters family-relevant content only - appointments, events, travel, activities. It doesn't touch your financial emails, bank accounts, work communications, or medical records. Read-only access. Your data is never used for AI training. No data selling. No ads.

In the Privacy Center, you can see exactly which emails FamilyHero can access and which it ignores. In the AI Center, you set how long data is kept - as low as one week, after which it's permanently deleted.

Getting parents to believe that, and to feel it in the product experience, is the real challenge. If you've solved a similar trust problem in a consumer product, I'd genuinely love to hear how you approached it.

What I'd love from IH

• Parents in the community: does the problem resonate? Would you connect your email to something like this?
• Anyone who's dealt with email parsing at scale: what surprised you?
• Feedback on the positioning - especially for the divorced parent use case. Is "automatic family calendar" the right frame, or is there something sharper?

Free to try at familyhero.co. Takes two minutes.