Key takeaways
- 13 August 2026, 08:30 — the very first commit: an iOS app prototype, a marketing landing page, a coming-soon page and an early-access survey, all in one push (commit 23b4f4b).
- This is the start of a public, dated changelog of everything Mommy Refuel ships, in my own words, as the founder.
- Mommy Refuel is a private, on-device wellbeing companion for the perinatal journey — not a medical or diagnostic product.
- The first build had no backend, no AI, no accounts — just the shape of the idea: a daily check-in and a calmer way to see how you're doing.
- Everything from here is going to be written down, dated, and linked back to the real commits.
Where and when
The very first commit of Mommy Refuel landed on 13 August 2026 at 08:30 (commit 23b4f4b). It was one push, 145 files, and it contained four things at once:
- an early iOS app prototype — the first version of the Today screen, the daily check-in, and the beginnings of the Refuel Score
- a marketing landing page describing the idea
- a coming-soon page for people who wanted to follow along before there was anything to install
- an early-access survey to start actually listening to mothers before writing more code
Nothing here touched a real backend, a real account system, or real AI. It was the skeleton: what the app would feel like, and a way for the first people to say "I want this" before I built much further. Build artifacts, and anything to do with fundraising or investor materials, were kept out of the repository from day one — the code history you'll see referenced across this blog is the product only.
Why Mommy Refuel exists
I didn't start building Mommy Refuel because I thought I'd spotted a market gap. I started because the first months of caring for a baby ask a mother to track and remember an enormous amount — sleep, feeding, mood, recovery, what the doctor said last time, who's supposed to be helping this week — while getting almost no structured way to actually see any of it. Most of what exists either turns that into a spreadsheet of numbers with no context, or it tries to be a social feed, or it quietly sends everything to a server somewhere and asks you to trust it.
I wanted something smaller and more honest than that: a private place, on your own phone, that helps you notice your own pattern day to day — without pretending to diagnose anything, without selling your data, and without asking you to perform wellness for an audience.
What day one actually was — and wasn't
To be precise about what shipped, because that's the whole point of this changelog: on 13 August the app was a prototype, not a product. There was no Refuel AI yet, no Journal, no Care Circle, no Apple Watch app, no App Store listing. What existed was the visual and structural foundation — the app's first screens, the site that explained the idea in plain language, and a way to collect a first list of interested mothers through the survey.
I'd rather a changelog like this undersell day one than oversell it. Everything that came after — and there was a lot, within days — is documented in the posts that follow this one.
What came next
The pace after this first commit was fast: within the same week, Mommy Refuel gained a private Journal, a Refuel AI layer, a Care Circle, a maternal timeline, and full Ukrainian localization — all covered in the next post. This blog exists so that history is visible and traceable, not just remembered. Every post from here on names the real date, the real build or release it refers to, and links back to specific commits where it helps.
Questions mothers ask
Was Mommy Refuel available to download on 13 August 2026?
No. The first commit was an internal prototype and a marketing/coming-soon site — nothing was published to the App Store or TestFlight at that point.
Did the first version use AI?
No. Day one had no AI layer at all. Refuel AI was added a few days later, on 17 August, as an optional networking layer with an offline fallback.
Why write a public changelog at all?
Because I'd rather show the real, dated history of what was built and when — including the honest early state — than let the story blur into vague marketing language later.
Is Mommy Refuel a medical product?
No. It is a wellbeing companion. It does not diagnose or treat anything, and it never will — that boundary is intentional and permanent.
Product designer and engineer from Kyiv who designed and built Mommy Refuel end to end. CTO at Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, founder of seven a.m. He writes every product update here: what shipped, where and when.
About SerhiiAvailability can vary with the installed app version. Statuses are founder-confirmed at the time of writing.
