SplitTime
A co-parenting app designed around the fact that every interaction is potential evidence.
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The Problem
Most co-parenting apps are calendars with chat bolted on. "Are you picking her up at 5 or 5:30?" reads as accusatory when you're already angry, and by message four nobody's talking about pickup anymore.
The hard part isn't logistics — it's tone.
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What I Built
Structured requests, not open chat. The pattern is clear ask → approve / decline / counter-propose → stamped timestamp. No room for tone, clean record if it ever needs to be one.
Templates for the 80% of co-parenting communication that's the same conversation every week strip the emotional charge out of routine messages.
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The Feature That Changed Behavior
Every approval, modification, and expense is timestamped and immutable.
Knowing the record exists changes how people communicate — it's not surveillance, it's the guardrail that makes both parties calmer.
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What I Got Wrong First
First cut had free-form messaging because it felt cruel not to. Wrong — open messaging is where the conflict lives.
Removing it felt counterintuitive until I watched someone visibly relax when I told them there wasn't one.
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Outcome
Parents testing it described it as "the first one that didn't make me feel like I was being managed."
That's the response I was designing for.