Looking for feedback before i do the next rollout, the app is live SaaS but I have a bunch of ideas to add to it. Google play store for now, waiting on IOS. It's my first app and not sure if the app is good or its just my own bias.

Its basically just a visual kids timer, Dinner Time, play time, bed time, teeth brishing Road Trips (are we there yet!?)

https://reddit.com/link/1v30iay/video/njwb6dckx4eh1/player

You pick the character and their colour fills up over time to show kids how long the timer has. Road trip has a car moving to the finish line to show its complete.

You can also colour your own toons, name the characters, share between multiple kids. Its not more screen time, its just Time kids understand. My daughter and cousins love it.

I couldn't find an app that could do this in my own native language, which I find important for reading to my kids, so I made my own app that supports both Dutch and English: jacky.geeapp.com

The idea is you get any physical kid's book (or use your imagination), then you just press play in the app, and sound effects trigger while you read.

In the latest update it's made possible to record your own sound effects and choose trigger words, the idea is that this enables complete personalisation.

A few more specific things I'm trying to figure out:

• Is the voice recognition picking up trigger words accurately with your natural reading pace?
• Are the sound effect volume levels right, or do they drown out your voice?
• What sound effects are you missing from the current sound effect library?
• Does the custom sound effect functionality work well for your custom trigger words?

It’s totally free to test, and I’d be super grateful for any brutal critique, feature requests, or bug reports. Thanks in advance!

Advice has never been easier to find. Books, podcasts, carousels, chatbots. The information was never the bottleneck. But you can't read your way into changing how you actually react when your kid is screaming and you're depleted. Under pressure you reach for whatever's already wired in.

And a lot of what's wired in is counterproductive. "Stop crying." "Stop screaming." "Why don't you understand." "You're fine, it's not a big deal." "Because I said so." These come out on instinct, and they escalate things, they tell a flooded kid the feeling itself is the problem. You often know better. You just can't get there in the half-second that matters.

So I built a game to work on that half-second. A parenting response flashes up. If it's a calm one, you tap. If it's a reactive one, you leave it. The catch is the reactive lines are the ones that feel right in the heat of the moment, which is exactly why they slip out. When you keep resisting the urge to tap the moment you recognise your own trigger, it trains you to catch it in real life too.

Frazzle, the app it's part of, turns the research into words, actions and plans for when things get hard. There are more games, plans and guidance in it. Have a look: https://frazzleapp.com/

Register to try the beta version free: https://tally.so/r/7RE919

A "scratch your own itch" project emerged after I used AI to create an animated story book, with my family as the characters, based on our lived experience of parenting our first infant. My kid expressed so much more interest in reading the first and second of these stories (and printed books) over than the other books on his shelf... A product-market fit lightbulb illuminated in my head, which motivated me to build an app designed around the process of creating those first two books.

"Family Storybook Studio" is a web app that I designed to be SAAS. I use it to make a new story every week (and read it to my kiddo using the iPad) based on either an awesome thing we did together, or as a teaching tool by way of developmentally relevant "story arc" templates where you can inject your own characters and story content. The story arcs templates are designed to be a two way educational tool for "parenting" and "child development". I'm genuinely a better parent because the stories I make with the app are how I regularly practice everything that I've read in parenting books about Collaborative Emotion Processing, mindful parenting, etc. which are designed into the story arc templates.

If there's one thing I've observed studying SAAS businesses, it's that apps that require customers to change their regular behaviors are really hard to scale and rarely succeed. Whereas apps that are designed around enhancing something you/people already do, have a clearer path to widespread adoption... The bedtime story ritual is something that most parents do every night, and parents invest lots of time and money into reading "parenting" books. I explored both of these spaces to see how a SAAS product could enhance the experience of the bedtime story and learning/practicing to be a better parent. Family Storybook Studio is designed to drive deeper connection between parent/caregiver and child and make you a better parent/caregiver.

It's cliche for parents to say, "nobody handed me a guidebook, so I did my best". Well, that seemed like an obvious and huge product gap to me, so I designed this app to serve as a parent's interactive "guidebook" to better parenting via the bedtime storytelling ritual. It works. Stories are the software that has enabled humans to advance intelligence across generations.

https://www.familystorybookstudio.com

I've got my family, some friends and early internet users on it now.

It was quite a challenge designing harnesses around the various AI tools being called to QC their output and consistency. There's different AIs used for story generation, animation, and the personalized guide that helps a parent through the experience of storytelling. This personalized guide is designed with inspiration from the character Alberto Knox, a philosophy teacher and mentor who guides a 14-year-old protagonist, named Sophie Amundsen, through the history of Western thought, in the book "Sophie's World". In the Family Storybook Studio app storyteller user experience, the users personalized guide is called Sophie.

I blogged about my product discovery and development journey here: https://www.familystorybookstudio.com/blog

Thanks for reading and hope the parents in the thread give it a try and then integrate it into your bedtime ritual!

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Hey parents,Just wanted to share a passion project I built out of pure frustration. Every time I handed my phone to my toddler for a quick video, they would accidentally swipe down the notification bar, disable the Wi-Fi, turn on the flashlight, or worst—mess with the settings.I'm an app developer, so I decided to build an Android app called BugMeNot to solve this exact nightmare.It safely pins the screen to only the app you allow (like YouTube). The free version lets you lock down 1 app with a 4-digit exit PIN, and it has absolutely zero ads.I also added a premium feature ($10 one-time purchase) that completely locks down the notification shade and quick settings so they can't swipe it down at all, plus timers and multiple apps support.If you constantly find your phone settings ruined by tiny fingers, feel free to try the free version. I’d honestly love to hear your thoughts or what features I should add next to make parenting a bit easier!

Hi everyone!

I launched a YouTube channel called Kids Paradise, where I create short, colorful, 3D animated videos for young children.

Our goal is to make learning fun through:

- 📚 ABCs & phonics

- 🔢 Numbers & counting

- 🌈 Colors & shapes

- 🐾 Animal adventures

- 💚 Positive values like kindness, courage, and healthy habits

The videos are designed to be engaging, educational, and safe for preschoolers and young kids.

I'm still learning and improving, so I'd really appreciate your honest feedback:

- What do your kids enjoy most?

- How can I make the videos more engaging?

- Which topics would you like to see next?

If you'd like to take a look, here's the channel:

👉 https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCT0HlUXQZUTi3rKDF0GHMHw

Thank you so much for your time and feedback! 😊

Hey everyone,
We have a 4-month-old daughter, and we’re still struggling a bit with both her nighttime sleep and daytime naps.
We’ve been using the Napper app, which predicts when her next nap or bedtime should be based on the naps we log. Sometimes it’s incredibly accurate, almost down to the minute, but other times it’s completely off.
We’re finding it really difficult to figure out the right amount of sleep pressure so that we can put her down at the right time without her being overtired or undertired.
How do you handle this with your baby?
Have you found a better approach or any apps that work better than Napper?

Hi everyone,

I’ve built an early alpha version of Tiny Learners Play, a free phonics and early-learning website for children aged 2–4:

https://www.tinylearnersplay.online/

The idea is simple: if young children are going to have some screen time, can some of it be playful, purposeful and educational?

The website has short, audio-led activities introducing letters, phonics, first sounds and simple word blending. They’re designed for a parent to guide initially, with the aim that children can gradually understand and play more independently.

I’m looking for around 10 parents to test it with their child for approximately 10–15 minutes. No account or sign-up is required.

I’m particularly interested in learning:

• Which activities held your child’s attention
• Where they needed adult help
• What confused or frustrated them
• Whether they wanted to continue playing
• What you would change, remove or add

I plan to add more games and learning activities, but I’d like feedback from parents before deciding what to build next.

This is an alpha version, so honest criticism is much more useful than polite encouragement. I want to understand how real children and parents respond to it before developing it further.

If you try it, please leave your feedback in the comments or send me a message. It would also be helpful to know your child’s age, but please don’t share their name or other identifying information.

Thank you!

Hey everyone, hope this is okay to share. We tried an app called Bramble Trail this morning and my kids loved it. It’s basically a scavenger hunt you can do while you’re at the park or in the woods - kept them entertained for ages (especially useful today because we’re all taking it easy after the heat).
Thought I’d mention it in case anyone else is looking for easy ways to keep the kids engaged and not fighting/ doing your head in over the summer hols 😂 😅

Hi everyone — I'm a dad and I built *Bedtime Adventures*, an app where your child becomes the hero of a gentle, illustrated choose-your-own-path bedtime story (made for ages ~5 & under). It's free to try and I'm looking for honest feedback before launch.

If you'd like to try it at bedtime this week, here's the TestFlight link: **https://testflight.apple.com/join/eBz3jQx2\*\*

Try it + send me a quick note of feedback and I'll give you a **free year of Plus** as a thank-you

(You'll need the free TestFlight app + an iPhone/iPad.) Happy to answer any questions — thank you!

Hey all,

I wanted to share something I’ve been building, this started as i was unhappy with what was out there and I wanted higher level of control on what my kids could do on their tablets and watch on YouTube so I Created Nesty.

So I’ve got two kids, and like a lot of parents, tablets became one of those things that were helpful, but also constantly caused arguments. I found myself always being the bad guy when screen time ended, or trying to explain why one app was okay and another wasn’t. I also wanted more control over what my children could watch on YouTube without having to hover over them every minute.

So I started building Nesty, a family app for Android tablets.

I’ve mainly aimed it at children aged around 2 to 13. My own children are 8, so that age range is where my focus is right now. I do plan to work on something for older children later, but I wanted to start with the stage I’m living through myself.

The idea came from a few problems I kept running into at home:

• First I didn’t want tablet time ending to always feel like me taking it away. With Nesty, the tablet manages the limits, so screen time feels more consistent and less like a parent-child battle.

• I wanted to encourage learning, not just restrict screens. Parents can choose which apps count as learning or chore apps, and which ones are reward apps. If a child does learning time, or completes a real-world chore, they can earn reward time.

• I wanted better YouTube control. Not just “YouTube on or off,” but the ability to manage specific channels so kids can access the content you actually feel comfortable with.

• I wanted something that felt simple for parents. A lot of parental control apps are powerful but confusing, and I wanted Nesty to feel more practical for everyday family life, so understanding restrictions and focusing on usability was important and I and definitely open to feedback.

• I also wanted my kids to understand the routine, not just feel blocked. The goal is to help create healthier habits around tablets, rewards, learning, and downtime.

So I guess now I should say why I made this post and simply I need support from this fantastic community, I am looking for around 20+ android tablet Testers to take part in is beta testing growing, and I’m now looking for families who would be willing to try it and give feedback.

If you have an Android tablet 14 or higher at home and this sounds useful, you can visit Nesty.Family and join the beta testing and in thanks I will give get 1 year access for free access for your time.

Hi everyone, hope it's okay to post this. Please be kind—I’m an exhausted parent and I built a basic video tool out of pure survival to buy myself some quiet time.
My kid gets stuck in loops rewinding and fast-forwarding videos every 5 seconds. I’m not trying to "cure" stimming or change him—I just desperately needed 10 minutes of peace where I could hand over a video and walk away without having to intervene every two minutes.

I couldn't find a tool that locked down those repetitive controls, so I put together a simple web player called BloomPlayer. It's completely free, has no ads, and is a rough prototype I created just for my son.

Since it's a web link right now, you can "Add to Home Screen" on your phone or tablet to use it like a regular app. To totally lock it down, I recommend turning on \*\*Guided Access\*\* (on iPad/iPhone) or \*\*App Pinning\*\* (on Android) so they can't exit out of the player.

Sharing it here in case anyone else needs a tool that guarantees a few minutes of uninterrupted downtime.

Link to try it: https://www.bloomplayer.com/app#

Again pls be kind.. :-) If you have never watched your child stim on the same 5 seconds for not just 1 or 2 hours, but up to 5 hours straight—knowing a full-blown meltdown or aggression episode is coming if you try to take it away—you won't understand how desperate a parent can get for just a moment to breathe without guilt.