CozyParent

At some point I realized I was planning my life in weeks. Week on, week off.

Sounds simple. Until you try to plan anything real. A trip, a meeting, even just a weekend away. You stop and start counting.

“Okay… this week is mine… next one is free… then mine again…”

You do it in your head, sometimes on your fingers, sometimes in the calendar just to be sure. And then you check again anyway. Not because it’s hard. You’re just never fully sure.

It gets worse when you look further ahead. Summer holidays, Christmas, school breaks. You want to plan something and realize you don’t actually know if it’s your week or not.

So you count again.

What I wanted was simple. To see it immediately. Which weeks are mine, which ones are free.

That’s one of the first things I built in CozyParent. Just a simple way to see it at a glance and stop doing the same mental math every time.

And it works.

You can try it out too on https://cozyparent.eu

I have 70+ projects in Lovable, and this is the first one where I genuinely feel like it could help others who’ve found themselves in the same situation as me.

Half a year ago, I split up with the mother of my two kids, who are eight and five. We agreed on a week-on / week-off co-parenting setup. On paper, we had everything figured out.

But then reality hit. And I realized very quickly that nothing is as simple as it looks at first glance.

Suddenly there was a ton of admin. A ton of planning. Deadlines everywhere. Activities piling up. It started to feel overwhelming.

Holidays began clashing with work. After-school activities started filling up huge chunks of the calendar. And at some point, the calendar itself just stopped being enough. Google just wasn’t cutting it anymore. And I could feel the pressure building more and more.

And then one day, I missed my daughter’s event.

That hits different. That one hurts.

And that’s how CozyParent was born.

I’m not a coder. I’m not a programmer. I’m not technical. But through experimenting with vibe coding, I decided to give it a shot — and for the first time, I built and launched an app end-to-end, completely on my own.

What did I need it to do, to make my life easier?

• clearly see when I have the kids

• know what’s coming and what needs attention — and how far in advance

• write down important things

• have everything in one place

• reduce the constant back and forth

It’s not perfect. But it’s a lot better. I feel like I’m back in control of the important stuff. Like I’m on top of things again. There’s way less confusion.

So why am I sharing this?

Because I want to keep improving this tool and share it with other dads who are going through something similar. I want to really polish it — so it actually makes life easier for all of us. So we don’t have to stand on a playground with our kids, wondering if we were supposed to buy crayons for tomorrow.

Are you in the same boat?

Would you be up for testing it with me?

Https://cozyparent.eu