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A grandson built an app for his grandmother
Baba means grandmother. It was made for one, and it is now shared with the whole diaspora.
How Baba began
For sixty years Teodora Szeremeta and her husband Wasyl followed the news from Ukraine together: the television in the kitchen, the parish bulletin on Sunday, a Ukrainian radio programme on Saturday, the Ukrainian Weekly in the mailbox.
After Wasyl died in 2020, all of that moved onto a tablet, and the tablet was a maze: small text, paywalls, and apps that assumed she was twenty. Her grandson Alexander, a Ukrainian-American who has loved technology all his life, set out to make her something better.
Baba is that app. The news from Ukrainian newsrooms, her parish's calendar of saints and feasts, live Ukrainian radio, the songs and recipes and anniversaries of home, all in one place, in Ukrainian and English, in the text size she actually reads.
It has no advertising, no tracking, no subscription and no social feed. It is the kind of small, dignified product the diaspora has always deserved.
In loving memory
Wasyl Szeremeta
Вічная пам'ять · Memory eternal
Baba is built in honour of a grandfather who came through the twentieth century carrying the Ukrainian language, the Orthodox faith and a quiet dignity, and handed all of it to the next generation. This app is for him, and for every diaspora grandparent who never forgot home.
What Baba stands for
Truth from trusted voices
Only outlets we would hand to our own family. No Russian state media, no propaganda, no doubtful aggregators.
Respect for privacy
No accounts, no profiles, no selling of data. Your bookmarks stay on your device.
Dignity in design
Large words, plain labels and nothing hidden. If Baba can't use it, it isn't finished.
Both languages, fully
Ukrainian and English are equal. Neither is an afterthought.
Paid once, owned forever
One honest price instead of ads or subscriptions.
Pro-Ukraine, openly
Baba stands with Ukraine's independence and its people. Слава Україні.
Who makes Baba
Baba is designed and built independently by Alexander Szeremeta, a Ukrainian-American developer. Ideas, corrections and parish additions are always welcome.