About a month ago, I started using
#Claude for my work at ProsperOps and it kind of broke my brain a little…
So I opened up my own account. Started spending nights and weekends just messing around with it, learning how to have it write code for me. One step at a time. Testing ideas. Building things I never thought I could build on my own without a coder friend’s help.
Six years in cloud and software taught me what engineering leaders actually care about, the foundational practices worth keeping, and the right questions to ask when building.
What I never had was the ability to actually build it. Claude bridged that gap in a way I didn't expect. It didn't just write code, it helped me think through decisions the right way.
My first real mini-project was a personal itinerary interactive website for my company's President's Club trip, just to make travel easy for me and my girlfriend. Small stakes, but it worked, and we’re actively using it and that changed something for me.
Then I talked to my sister and brother-in-law.
They had been sitting on an idea for three years. A real problem with a real solution that they just couldn't figure out how to bring to life.
My sister supports so many moms as a RN, BSN, IBCLC and they are texting her at all hours of the day/night - a great problem.
She loves being able to be there for them, but also has two kids of her own, and can’t be available around the clock.
After that conversation we started building together and that idea is now
www.LactationNow.AI, an AI-powered lactation support chat assistant that connects new moms with evidence backed guidance and certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) for concerns that necessitate clinical follow up.
Nova (the bot’s name) keeps conversations private, has been trained on hours of detailed interviews with my sister on how she approaches her current mom’s common needs, and makes sure to provide sources for those that want to dive deeper into the credibility of the information being presented.
Here's the number that keeps us up at night: 3.6 million babies are born in the US every year.
There are roughly 21,000 certified lactation consultants in the entire country, which works out to about 6 per every 1,000 live births.
Most of those consultants are clustered in cities, and in rural areas you may not have access to a single one. That gap is what we're trying to close.
We are now in beta and opening the doors.
If you want to support what we're building, two things would mean a lot:
- Repost this / share with a new mom
- Add your name to the waitlist at
www.LactationNow.AI
We will be accepting users until we hit our beta capacity. We genuinely want all the feedback, good, bad, brutally honest. This is the kind of thing that gets better the more people push on it.
I'm excited to see where this goes, for my sister's practice, and for the moms who just need someone in their corner at 2am.