What I’m building

All of this is live. If something here doesn’t work the way it reads, that’s a bug and I want to hear about it.

• Set up in ten minutesThe first run walks you through it: your family’s name, one child, their allergies and medicines, a day to start from, anyone else who helps, this phone, and the code you send them. Every step but the child’s name can be left for later, and it tells you where the thing lives instead. Close it halfway and it reopens where you stopped.
• Every age, not just toddlersChico is for newborns all the way up to school-age children. As long as you’re managing your child’s schedule, it’s for you. It grows with you at every stage.
• Everything outside schoolTuition, swimming, a CCA, a holiday camp: their own tab, separate from school, with the same repeats and reminders. School stays school.
• Your phone, arranged your wayThe row of tabs along the bottom is set per phone, not per family — whoever does the school run and whoever does the meals want different things there, and now setting yours doesn’t rearrange anyone else’s. Different tabs per child, too.
• One record, every caregiverWhatever one of you logs is on the other one’s phone straight away — your partner, your mum, whoever has them this afternoon.
• Chico AI, which you can just textSay what happened in a normal sentence and it works out the dose, the time and the child, then asks you to confirm before anything is saved. It answers in nine languages, so the grandparents and your helper can use it in theirs.
• Newborn modeA newborn runs in cycles of their own, so their Today screen drops the timetable and shows intervals instead: since the last feed and which side is owed, since the last change, since they went down, and the wet and dirty counts your clinic asks for. Bigger buttons that stay where they are, because that screen gets read at 3am.
• Feeds, bottles and diapersA breastfeed timer that counts in seconds and keeps running with the phone locked. Bottles with the amount, or a combo split between breast milk and formula. Diapers with what was in them. All of it skippable when one hand is full.
• Meals and the allergen checkWrite a recipe or paste a link and Chico pulls out the ingredients. Every one is checked, word by word, against what each child reacts to — and it will never tell you something is safe, only that nothing was matched. Plan meals onto days, search by ingredient, or let it pick for you.
• Things that repeatSpelling every Monday, library every other Tuesday, fees on the 1st. Daily, every few days, weekly on the days you choose, or monthly — set once instead of forty times a year.
• Patterns, read carefullyThirty nights of wake-ups turned into what the logs actually show. For a newborn it describes the intervals and stops there: whether any of it is normal is a question for your doctor, and it says so.
• Take your data with youOne tap downloads everything Chico holds for your family as a file. Deleting your account is one tap too — it asks you to type DELETE, and tells you who else loses the family with you.
• Two levels of accessA parent can change anything. A helper can log the day and tick lists but not rewrite your routines or medicines, and can only delete what they logged themselves. Only you can remove anyone.
• Reminders that reach youMedication, diapers, vitamins, meals, naps and school, on the gaps you set. Quiet hours stop the routine nudges overnight and let medicine through.
• Days that aren’t like the othersSports day, a school trip, a half day. Still a school day — the bag and the medicine reminders all run — but Today says what kind of day it is and the routine nudges stay quiet, instead of announcing a pick-up time that is wrong.
• Steps inside a projectA build-the-robot project can have its own deadlines — draft on Friday, photos to the teacher on Wednesday. Each step reminds on its own date and shows up on Today when it lands, instead of one reminder the night before it’s all due.
• The facts nobody can hold for three childrenWhich school, which class, the form teacher’s name, the office number. Shoe size, clothing size — each dated when it was last checked, because a size from a year ago is a guess. And Chico AI can answer them: ask it who Evan’s form teacher is from the queue at the shops.
• The school sideDress-up days, projects with their own checklists, homework. A whole term break is one entry with a start and an end, not sixty taps on a calendar.
• Medicine you can hand to a doctorDoses, temperatures and symptoms with the time on them, a weight-based calculator, and the next safe dose worked out for you. You add the medicines your own doctor named, at the dose off your own packaging — Chico ships with none, because which four medicines are in the box is not an app’s call.
• Everything in your Google CalendarConnect once and school things, activities and meal plans are written through to a calendar of Chico’s own inside your Google Calendar — colour-coded per child, updated the moment anything changes, shareable from Google with anyone who should see it. Chico can only touch the calendar it creates, never your existing ones.
• The weather, and what to packThe forecast sits beside the date on Today — tap it for morning, afternoon and evening, and what to bring if you’re heading out: the umbrella before the four o’clock thunderstorm, the hat and sunscreen, the coat when you travel somewhere cold. It follows your phone’s location, and when you cross a timezone Chico asks whether the reminders should come along or stay on home time.
• Illness patternsA parent asked for this one: an Illnesses view in Patterns that reads the weeks before each time your child fell sick — sleep, appetite, and the actual weather those days — and shows what they had in common. It describes; it never diagnoses.
• From diapers to “do you need to go?”Once a child is toilet trained the Diaper button becomes a Bathroom one, and the diaper reminder becomes a bathroom check — a nudge to ask, on whatever gap you set, from every half hour to every three.
• A snooze that comes backSnoozing a reminder means it returns in fifteen minutes — the promise on the notification is one the app actually keeps.
• Bringing another family inEvery family has its own code and link, on the referral card in Settings. Use someone’s and you both get S$10 off when paid plans start — it stacks, so telling four people is S$40. It is the only way I plan to grow this.
• Playtime, decided for youPut in the things you actually do with them, tagged indoor or out, loud or quiet, and how long each takes. Then say where you are and how much energy is in the room, and it spins a wheel and picks one.
• Logged late, recorded rightEvery entry’s time can be corrected — nudge it back fifteen minutes, half an hour, an hour, or type it in. A 2am feed keyed in at 3:30 shouldn’t put a fake gap in your patterns.
• Nothing disappears by accidentEvery delete asks first and can be undone for seven seconds afterwards.