Why Storkie exists
Storkie started with a newborn and a 3 a.m. feed. Every app I tried for that moment either looked like a hospital chart or made its money from the data inside it.
I’m Chris. I built Storkie to track my own baby’s days, and I kept building it because the other trackers bothered me. A family’s record of their baby’s first years is about as personal as data gets, and I didn’t like the idea of paying for it as a subscription while it trained someone else’s models. So I made Storkie fast enough to use with a baby in one arm, and I made sure the record stays with your family.
I build it on my own, a little every week, in the open. You can see what I’m working on right now on the Building Storkie page, and what Storkie promises about your data in The Storkie Promise.
How Storkie is built
The short version, for the technically curious: Next.js and React on Vercel, Postgres on Supabase with row-level security per family, Clerk for sign-in, and AI through server-side tools. A few decisions worth explaining:
Storkie needs a connection, and that's on purpose.
I tried offline-first sync engines in early prototypes, and each one made it harder for two phones to agree on what had just happened in the middle of the night. So Storkie uses one database, with row-level security per family and live updates.
Ask Storkie only reads your data after you turn it on.
Ask Storkie runs through server-side tools. It reads your data only after you turn on Personalized answers, and only to answer the question you just asked. Voice logging does not read your data. It turns what you say into one new entry. Your data isn’t analyzed in the background or used to train a model.
I wanted a promise I could actually keep.
Storkie’s promise is about what it won’t do with your data. Features like Ask Storkie have to read your data to work, so a promise that Storkie can’t read it would be broken the first time you asked a question. The trade-offs are written down in plain English on The Storkie Promise page.
Questions, ideas, or just want to say hi? hello@storkie.app reaches me directly.