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I design and build Mommy Refuel myself. Here I write down every release — what shipped, where and when — and the principles behind it.
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September 2026
- Why I'm launching this blog, from day one of Mommy RefuelI'm starting a blog on mommyrefuel.com — real articles on motherhood and wellbeing, and this changelog written in my own name, in English and Ukrainian, alongside sharing Mommy Refuel more widely this week.
- Just talk: speak or type, and Mommy Refuel sorts it outNo forms, no menus — just speak or type about your day, and Mommy Refuel proposes where it belongs. You decide what actually gets saved. Here's exactly how it works and why I built it this way.
- September 20: fixing a real language bug, builds 23-24One bug on September 20 bothered me more than most: switching languages could leave half your screen in the old one. Here's what caused it, how I fixed it, and what else shipped that day.
- September 19 evening: Life Timeline graduates to a real pilotAfter the morning's shipping, I spent the evening on something less flashy but more important: making sure the roadmap inside the app never tells you a working feature is still just an idea.
- September 19 morning: Memories, Supplies, Expenses go liveBetween 07:46 and 11:35 on September 19, six features moved from roadmap promises to things you can actually use — plus a weight-tracking step, a due-date step, and the first Apple Watch app.
- Fixing language switching for real, plus a dark-rose dark modeTwo days after adding six new languages, I found the switch itself didn't reliably work. Here's the honest story of fixing it properly, plus a new warm dark mode, across builds 15 to 17.
- Build 13: calmer design, Supplies & Expenses, six more languagesThe busiest single day the app has had: a calmer redesign across every screen, two brand-new beta tools for family logistics, the app speaking six more languages, and build 13 prepared for TestFlight.
- The Mommy Refuel website becomes a real, 9-language siteIn one working day, mommyrefuel.com went from a single scrolling landing page to a real multi-page site with a proper menu, matching editorial design, and content in nine languages. Here is exactly what changed, and when.
- Launch day, part 3: the daily loop gets realLaunch morning was the easy part to summarize. What followed that afternoon and evening was a long, dense run of shipping — Today, Care, Timeline, Partner mode, Memories, Children, and a dozen smaller honest fixes. Here's the full list.
- What's next, and Mommy Refuel Care NetworkA few hours after going live on the App Store, I shipped two more things the same day: an honest "what's next" layer, and a new Care Network for finding real support — still behind a beta gate.
- Mommy Refuel is live on the App Store, free pilotThis morning Mommy Refuel stopped being a beta and became a real, downloadable app. Here is exactly what shipped, in what order, and why — from the person who built it.
- App Store review, round two: what Apple asked, what I changedBuild 11 came back from App Review with two real, fair findings. I'll walk through exactly what Apple flagged, what I changed in response, and why I bumped the version to 2.0.0 for the resubmission.
- GA readiness day: privacy fixes, DNS cutover, honest release docsSeptember 5 was the least glamorous, most important day of the project so far: I found and closed three real privacy gaps, moved the site's DNS to AWS, and wrote down exactly what's still blocking a public launch.
- Mommy Refuel site v4: rebuilding it as a real product siteOn September 4 I threw out the old marketing shell and rebuilt the site from zero: real iPhone screens instead of mockups, a full English/Ukrainian site, and the first pieces of the move to AWS.
- Rebuilding mommyrefuel.com twice, and our first internal dashboardThe site went from a single landing page to a real multi-page product site, twice over, in one day — plus a broken logo fixed live, a move to AWS, and the first internal tool for running the company honestly.
- Life Timeline, a family foundation, and App Store build 11The day the app quietly grew a family and a memory: a private family foundation, a flag-gated Life Timeline, a calmer onboarding, and the App Store review round that followed.
- Mommy Refuel's AI moves to AWS, and a production-readiness auditOne long day: the Refuel AI assistant got a permanent home on AWS, I audited the whole authentication and safety chain end to end, and two TestFlight builds shipped.
August 2026
- Support, privacy links, and Mommy Refuel's first merged backendThe week the app stopped being a local prototype: real support and privacy pages, a cloud sync backend, and the first pull request merged into Mommy Refuel's main branch.
- v1.6: TestFlight readiness, and the site catches upOver two days, 18–19 August 2026, the work shifted from adding features to getting genuinely ready: a clinical safety review package, beta diagnostics, privacy-safe metrics, a paid developer account migration — and mommyrefuel.com rebuilt to describe the real, built app instead of a pre-launch idea.
- v1.3–v1.5: Doctor mode, App Intents, HealthKit, WatchIn the second half of the same long day, 17 August 2026, Mommy Refuel gained a real explanation of its own score, Siri and Shortcuts support, a Doctor Visit Mode, and genuine Apple Watch, widget, HealthKit and Live Activity integrations — then a hardening pass to make sure none of it was fragile.
- v1.1 & v1.2: Refuel AI, private Journal, Care Circle, timelineIn a single day — 17 August 2026 — Mommy Refuel went from a bare prototype to a genuinely useful companion: Refuel AI, a private Journal, Care handoff, a nanny-search scaffold, weekly reports, Care Circle, a Privacy Center, evening reflection, a maternal timeline, and full Ukrainian.
- Day one: why I started building Mommy RefuelOn 13 August 2026 I pushed the first commit of Mommy Refuel: an iOS app prototype, a landing page, a coming-soon site and a survey. Here is what that first push actually contained, and why I'm building this at all.