Inspiration
Eight months ago, our lives changed when we were blessed with our son.
During my wife's pregnancy, we spent countless hours researching what products were actually worth buying. Like most first-time parents, we joined several WhatsApp communities created by our hospital where parents asked questions every day:
- Which breast pump should I buy?
- Which stroller is worth the price?
- What should I pack for the hospital?
- Which products are actually useful and which are just marketing?
After spending hours researching reviews, videos and recommendations ourselves, we naturally started answering these questions for other parents in those groups.
One day we realized something interesting: every parent was spending hours researching the same questions independently.
That's when we asked ourselves:
What if we could use AI to help every parent find trusted products and guidance instead of repeatedly answering the same questions manually?
That idea became GenBetaParentsClub.
What it does
GenBetaParentsClub is an AI-powered parenting platform that helps parents discover trusted products and practical guidance from pregnancy through early childhood.
Instead of overwhelming parents with thousands of products, we curate recommendations based on real parenting stages like:
- Pregnancy
- Hospital Bag
- Newborn
- Postpartum
- Colic
- Sleep Regression
- Teething
Our platform combines curated recommendations with AI-powered workflows that help parents find products faster while continuously creating educational parenting content.
How we built it
We built the website using Next.js and deployed it on Vercel.
To keep product management simple, we use Google Sheets as our CMS, allowing products and categories to be updated without deploying code.
Our AI-powered workflows include:
- Google Flow generates educational parenting videos that are automatically published to YouTube and Instagram.
- Pinterest automation continuously publishes parenting content to drive organic discovery.
- A backend AI service analyzes parenting conversations from WhatsApp communities, understands buying intent, and recommends relevant products from our curated catalog.
- Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity help us understand user behaviour and continuously improve the platform.
Challenges we ran into
One of our biggest challenges was maintaining trust.
Parents don't want hundreds of recommendations—they want a few products that genuinely solve their problem.
We also wanted to avoid maintaining a complex backend. Choosing Google Sheets as our CMS gave us a simple and flexible way to manage hundreds of products without requiring technical knowledge for updates.
Another challenge was balancing automation with quality. AI helps us understand parents' needs and automate content creation, but recommendations always come from our carefully curated product catalog.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Built a production website that serves real parents.
- Created AI-powered content generation workflows for social media.
- Automated Pinterest content publishing.
- Built an AI backend that understands buying intent from parenting discussions.
- Built a lightweight CMS using Google Sheets.
- Integrated Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to continuously improve the user experience.
- Created a platform inspired by our own parenting journey that is already helping other parents.
What we learned
Building GenBetaParentsClub taught us that the biggest challenge isn't finding parenting products—it's helping parents make confident decisions.
We also learned that AI delivers the most value when it removes repetitive work. Whether it's understanding parents' questions, creating educational content, or helping curate recommendations, AI allows us to spend more time improving the experience instead of performing repetitive manual tasks.
What's next for GenBetaParentsClub
Our vision is to become an AI-powered parenting companion that supports families throughout their parenting journey.
Our next goals include:
- Expanding our curated product catalog.
- Supporting more parenting stages.
- Making recommendations even more personalized.
- Growing our educational content across YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest.
- Building a larger community where parents can learn from both AI-powered guidance and each other's experiences.
Our mission is simple:
Help parents spend less time researching and more time enjoying the journey of raising their children.
Built With
- next.js
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