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Notes from the wake window.

Thoughts on parenting with cameras, what it actually takes to build this, and why the hours between naps are the part of the day worth keeping.

From the founder's desk

Two posts in the works.

ProductComing soon

Why should I buy this?

Baby monitors today are laser-focused on health, growth, and sleep analytics. They completely miss the best part of your child's day: the wake window. The moments where first words happen, where wobbly steps turn into confident strides, where a giggle becomes a core memory. This is the story of how PeetaBoo was born from a work-from-home engineer's need to capture authentic moments with his daughter Ellie, without asking her to perform for the camera after the magic had already passed. It's about why your child deserves an organized library of their childhood, not a chaotic camera roll you'll never have time to sort.

Coming soon8 min read
TechnicalComing soon

I work in tech. Could I just vibe-code this?

The answer is maybe. At a high level you'd need a camera, storage, a way to pull raw clips, a model to find your child across hours of footage, a vision-language model to make sense of the videos, and an app to present it all. Simple, right? This post walks through the real stack, from a $60 Reolink camera to the security concerns of running open-source tools on your home network, and why what sounds like a weekend project took over a year to build. The technical deep-dive comes in a separate post; this one covers whether the DIY route is actually worth it.

Coming soon6 min read
Next up

The full architecture, the privacy design, and the parenting parts.

We're just getting started. Future posts cover the pipeline end to end, how retention and privacy actually work, and what it's like to parent with a system that notices.

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