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Launched on Product Hunt today

I'm Warren, founder of Hey Susan, an AI assistant for new parents. Today's the milestone: we're live on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hey-susan).

Quick backstory on why this exists: my wife Joanna and I took the prenatal class, sat through the discharge briefing before we left the hospital, asked questions, but nobody specifically told us what to watch for, signs of jaundice, whether our son was getting enough colostrum, whether he was feeding enough. By day 4 he was jaundiced enough that he needed to be admitted for phototherapy. At 3am that night we described what we were seeing to a generic AI chatbot because we didn't know who else to call at that hour. It flagged the pattern as jaundice and told us to get him checked. We brought him in that morning and it was confirmed. He's totally fine now. But the chatbot that helped us didn't know anything about our baby, it had no memory of the pattern building since day one, it just got lucky that we described the right symptoms at the right time.

That gap, no memory, no proactive checking, is what we built Hey Susan to close. You text her in plain language ("fed 4oz at 9am," "wet diaper," "she finally napped") and she remembers your baby specifically and messages you first if a pattern looks worth a second look. She never diagnoses anything and she's not a replacement for your pediatrician. Crisis and 911 situations are hard-coded to bypass the AI entirely and route straight to real help.

Where things stand: real native apps, live on both iOS and Android right now, not a Telegram bot or a web wrapper. Free to use during early access, no card required to start. Paid tier ($99/yr or $14.99/mo) is public on the site for when that opens up, no hidden upsells. The hardest part to build wasn't the chat interface, it was the memory and proactive-messaging layer, most chat-based baby trackers are stateless and make you re-explain your kid every time.

Would love feedback from this community, including the critical kind, and especially from anyone who's built in health or parenting and thought hard about the line between "helpful" and "medical advice." That's the single hardest product call we've made.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hey-susan

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