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Five minutes a day. We'll just remind you who's overdue — gently, without making you feel worse.

Problem

Since the baby came, my 4-year-old has been acting out — and I know the experts say 5 minutes of one-on-one a day fixes it. But I'm so sleep-deprived I can't remember if it's been one day or four since I sat alone with him. I just feel guilty all the time.

Audience

US parents in the first 6-12 months postpartum with a second baby and an existing 2-7-year-old at home. Sleep-deprived, primary caregiver on parental leave or WFH. Often feels guilty about uneven attention but has no bandwidth for tracking.

Reasoning

Source signals

  • **SIG-20260426-us-family-logistics-firstborn-attention-tracker-newborn-phase** — "Five minutes of undivided eye contact... can make a huge difference. Predictability matters more than duration." 6 sources confirm prescription, none provide tooling.

What we ship

**Core features (MVP)**

  • **Per-child connection streak**: days since last one-on-one (5+ min). Big block: "Last solo time with Liam: 3 days ago"
  • **One-tap log**: "Just had 5 minutes with [kid]" — confirm — done. Zero friction.
  • **Gentle reminder logic**: NEVER "you've failed" language. Only "It's been a while since [kid] had you alone — try 5 minutes this evening?" — opt-in push, max 3/week, calibrated NOT to trigger guilt
  • **Optional photo / quick note**: "we made a tower today" — 1-line memory
  • **Partner shared (read-only)**: off-shift partner sees whose turn, can step in
  • **Streak shown but not gamified**: we show "days in a row" but NO badges / leaderboards / "you lost your streak" push

**Primary user flow**

1. Landing → "5 minutes a day. We'll quietly track who's overdue." → set up kids

2. Onboard: kid names + ages + desired cadence (every 1/2/3 days)

3. Home screen — big per-kid cards with last-one-on-one timestamp

4. After activity — tap, log, done

5. Optional partner-invite (1-2 min setup)

**What it looks like**

  • **Landing page**: hero "5 minutes a day. We'll quietly track who's overdue." + per-kid card screenshot + parent testimonial ("I cried when it told me it had been 6 days")
  • **Main app screen**: 2-3 huge per-kid cards; color shifts green → yellow → soft peach with age (deliberately NOT red)
  • **Optional weekly digest**: "You had 6 one-on-ones with Liam this week. He's been seen."

**MVP build plan (5 days)**

  • Day 1-2: backend (households, kids, one_on_one_logs, partner-invite)
  • Day 3: React PWA — main screen, log button, gentle-reminder logic
  • Day 4: Stripe Checkout one-time $14, landing with emotional copy
  • Day 5: deploy CF Pages + Railway, soft-launch r/beyondthebump + Lukewarm Mom blog DM

Reasoning

6 distinct counseling/parenting sources prescribe "5-10 min one-on-one daily" (Lukewarm Mom, Cradlewise, Romper, SteadyHealth, The Parent Gadget, Mommy on Purpose). **The fix is well-known. The adherence tool is missing.** Search whitespace for "connection streak sibling one-on-one tracker" returned no results — no direct competitor.

Wedge: **anti-gamification design**. All streak/habit-tracker apps (Streaks, Habit Tracker, etc.) push gamification (badges, "you broke your streak") — exactly contra-indicated for an exhausted mom of a newborn. Our UX is deliberately quiet, soft, caring. Strong moat in copywriting and tone (hard for big players to copy because they're trained on gamification frames).

One-time $14 pricing aligns with the use case — needed for 6-12 months, then the kid grows, interrupted-need shape. Subscription feels extractive here. Lifetime = right alignment.

Build is 5 days, very simple. No AI in v1, pure manual log. PWA + Web Push is enough.

Quick competitive read

5 competitors profiled (full CMP files in `data/competitors/CMP-IDEA-055-*`). Market density = LOW — zero direct competitors on the "per-child gentle attention-streak tracker" wedge.

  • **Tinybeans** ($74.99/yr) — memory keeper for photos; does not model per-child attention balance. No overlap.
  • **Peanut** ($13.99/mo Plus) — mom social network for peer matching; complementary, not competitive. Distribution channel candidate.
  • **The Fabulous** ($39.99/yr) — gamified habit coach; the exact thing we counter-position against. Anti-gamification = our moat.
  • **Way of Life** ($6.49 lifetime Android) — generic per-item streak tracker; tech-savvy paper-workaround floor. We win on parent-domain UX + age-aware copy.
  • **Big Life Journal — Sharing Joy Cards** ($24.99 deck) — physical content artifact for connection moments; complementary. Their $24.99 deck price validates our $19 one-time.

**White-space confirmed**: no direct competitor on per-child connection-streak tracker for the postpartum sibling-jealousy use case. Pricing anchors validate one-time $19 (Way of Life $6.49 floor → Big Life Journal $24.99 ceiling). Wedges: anti-gamification UX (counter Fabulous/Habitica), domain-specific per-kid model (counter Way of Life), one-time vs subscription (counter Tinybeans/Peanut/Fabulous). Risk: Cozi or Tinybeans could add as a feature — we win on tone, focused single-purpose, and the lifetime price.

Initial pricing hypothesis

Free: 14-day trial. **One-time $14 lifetime** ("a small thank-you for showing up"). Deliberately low — "guilt-saver" utility bought in emotional moment-of-need. Alt: $24 lifetime. Test both.

Distribution hypothesis

1. **Reddit organic**: r/beyondthebump, r/Parenting, r/Mommit — emotional posts: "Built this because I couldn't remember when I last sat with my older kid."

2. **Lukewarm Mom + Romper + Cradlewise content collab**: these blogs are already writing this pain — natural cross-promo.

3. **Pinterest + Instagram momfluencer**: emotional copy and tear-jerker testimonials work very well.

4. **Postpartum doula referrals**: doulas work with mothers in this exact phase (3-12 mo postpartum).

5. **Lactation consultant offices**: handouts in waiting rooms.