How it started
I'm Carmen, a mom and a software developer.
When my son was born, I started taking pictures of him every day. For every milestone I wanted the photo to feel special: stickers, pretty lettering, a collage of his week. Then I started keeping track of his weight, his height and his firsts. Soon I was juggling one app for photos, another for collages, another for growth, and a notebook for everything else.
I had just graduated in computer science, so I decided to build the one app I actually wanted, with everything in one place.
It began as a simple photo organizer for my son. Then it grew: growth tracking, milestones, a journal, and every feature I'd wished already existed. Somewhere along the way I realized that if I needed this, other moms probably did too. That's when The Days We Keep stopped being my personal project and became a mission: to help families everywhere keep the days they'll want back.
Our stories don't stop at the milestones. The place we keep them shouldn't either.
And the more I built, the more I saw that family memories don't belong to one stage. Pregnancy has its own story. Toddlers have their own language. Teenagers have their own jokes. Underneath all of it is the story of the family itself.
Carmen
