A note from the founder
Hi, I’m Daniel.
I’m a dad of 6-year-old twins and a 4-year-old. I have a PhD in psychology. And I’m the person building Pairent.
Why I’m building this
Every parent I know wants to do a better job. Every parent I know also has almost no bandwidth to think about how.
I’ve read the parenting books I was told to read. Some of them are wonderful. The trouble is that none of what I underlined ever seems to be in my head at the moment I actually need it — standing in the kitchen at 7:15am with one kid complaining about the breakfast options, a second asking for help to put the plant back in the pot — wait, what plant?! — and a third loudly refusing to get out of bed.
Pairent is my attempt to close that gap. It is not another app competing for your attention, but, rather, something that listens while your life is already happening. It then does the hard reflective work overnight, and hands you back one small, useful thought the next morning — when there’s actually space to use it.
A bit of background
Before the PhD I was a documentary filmmaker and artist. I co-founded an anti-social-media app called minutiae — an experiment in slowing down what our phones do to our attention. That instinct, to build technology that gives you back more than it takes, is the same one driving Pairent.
What I’m promising
Your family’s moments are yours. No ads. No engagement tricks. No selling your data, ever. You decide what gets captured and you can delete any of it, at any time. I would not build this any other way, because I wouldn’t use it any other way.
If any of this resonates — or if you want to push back on something — write to me at pairent@danieljwilson.com. I read everything.
— Daniel