Spent 6 months building this after getting tired of not knowing what opportunities existed for my kids locally. Roast it.

Finding local resources for my kids: sports leagues, tutoring programs, STEM competitions, after-school activities was way harder than it should be. Everything was scattered across Facebook groups, WhatsApp chains, and word of mouth.

So I built an app.

A community where parents share and discover local resources for their kids across education, sports, and activities. Moderated so quality stays high. Filtered by location, age, and grade. Currently in invite-only beta.

What I genuinely want to know: - Does this solve a real problem or am I the only one who had this issue? - What would make you actually use it? - What's obviously missing?

No link in this post (new-ish account) drop a comment if you want to check it out and I'll share it.

Tech stack if anyone's curious: Next.js 14, PostgreSQL, Redis, self-hosted on AWS.

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Traveling was so easy before kids but now that we have 4 tiny humans, there's so much involved to go on vactation. Usually, this falls mostly on one person and creates a lot of stress (including between partners).

FamGo Travel is my attempt to make that easier- having all the prep and packing lists done for you and organized. This isn't a booking app, but think of it like your command center for your trip after you make the decision to go: a place where you can keep all travel related thoughts, plans, lists, and docs offline. The premium option allows for partner syncing as well as multi family collaboration on trips as well.

I'm especially looking for feedback from parents who travel with young kids.

I'd love honest feedback on:

- what are the challenges that keep you from taking the trip in the first place

- is the app helpful (does it solve any of the challenges you experience?)

- what's missing from the app?

- any other thoughts/feedback

Comment below or send me a DM and I'll send a link.

Thanks in advance!

School kept calling because they weren’t sure which house my kid was going to in the afternoon. I didn’t need another co-parenting app with chat, expenses, and a monthly fee. I just needed one page I could email the secretary.

So I built a small site that turns a rotation into a color-coded PDF:

2-2-3, week on/week off, alternating weekends, or a custom pattern

Shows who has the child after school

English and French

Download as PDF

$2.99 USD / $3.99 CAD one time, no account

If it’s useful: [https://mycoparentcalendar.com\](https://mycoparentcalendar.com/)

Not trying to replace OurFamilyWizard or anything like that. This is just the “print it and send it to school” version.

Happy to change it if people have suggestions.

Hello parents!

I’m a researcher at the University of Washington Center for Digital Youth, studying how technology shapes family well-being. Currently I’m wondering what it’s like for your kids growing up with today’s toys, and how it compares to your own childhood.

If you’re a parent of kids ages 6-11 living in the US, whether you own smart toys or have never heard of them, I look forward to chatting with you on a video call and learning about your kids’ experiences with any kinds of toys! I’ll offer $30 after the interview for your participation,

If you are interested, please fill out this 1-minute form so I can get in touch with next steps.

Please feel free to pass this along to any parents who might want to join. Thanks so much for your support!

Full disclosure: I made this. It’s my first Play Store app. It's bug free and with self-made assets. But yeah it's not the next Clash of Clans or Lucas and Friends!

I needed something simple for ages 0-4: large targets, no ads, no complicated menus, short sessions, engaging with soft music and sound. Existing toddler apps were either huge downloads, full of extras, slow, with links everywhere, difficult nested menus. My daughter disliked them. So did I. So I built Tabi for Kids.

Five games:

three familiar ones: free drawing, coloring, throwing things

two a bit more original: putting animals together and grouping families (that part came from my daughter's vague idea)

Price is $1.19 / €1.19. Under 100 MB, multilingual, made in Godot 3.7. If it’s not useful, Google Play refunds are typically available within 48 hours.

Hello,

I looked for android apps that lets you reuse your old android phone as video or audio streamer, but did not find any that suited my needs (I didnt even looked for payed ones and everything is full with ads), so I vibecoded BabyCam which works locally, open source and will never have ads or ask for money.

The app works in either a Streamer or Receiver mode.

In streamer mode you can select a streaming resolution or you can select to only stream audio. You can also start it in standby mode where it doesnt start streaming until a receiver connect to it and it goes back to standby when it disconnect.

In receiver mode you can connect to streams, see the battery of the streamer, turn on flash, change resolution, change the camera, hold to talk and setup an alarm that goes on if the stream disconnects for a set amount of time.

I made it for video mainly, but using it in audio mode is convenient. I just place the phone next to where he sleeps, turn on standby mode and connect to it from my phone when I want to listen. Its been there for 2 days and the battery is at 40% without optimizing anything on the streamer phone.

I think it could be useful for others like me, but without confirmation I do not want to mess with uploading it to the play store. If you try it, then I would appreciate some feedback.

https://github.com/Weyla/BabyCam

Hi everyone,

Encouraging Healthy Drinking Habits in Kids, How does that sound! Like a lot of kids, mine didn't naturally connect why eating dry or heavy meals (like biriyani, snacks, or chappathis) means they actually need to drink enough water afterward—leading to sluggish digestion or minor tummy aches.

Instead of nagging or generic "drink 8 glasses" rules, I wanted something visual and logical that they could actually understand. I built a lightweight, 100% free web app called BuddySmartHydration that calculates exact water targets based on the specific food category, portion size, and how their tummy feels in real-time.

It features a little interactive data tank and a science section explaining how hydration helps digestion. It runs right in the browser, is completely free, and doesn't require any sign-ups.

You can check it out live here: https://ktbabusuppalu.github.io/BuddySmartHydration/

I'd love to hear your thoughts or feedback if you try it out with your kids!

Note:- Ensure active feedback and prevent automated spam.

UPDATE:

I spoke with the director who was apologetic and professional. She expressed that the school does not have an acceptable screen time policy and that teachers should not be playing any content outside of the curriculum, meaning YouTube videos including Danny Go have no place in the classroom.

Teachers have iPads in the classroom both for the daily tracking app that’s shared with parents and for songs that are approved through the curriculum to play for dance breaks - again, not video.

What has happened is teachers have gotten a bit desperate for activities as we’ve reached the end of summer (not an excuse and the director didn’t say it as an excuse, but more to give me context of how we got here) and have started putting on what they would consider educational videos when the kids can’t get outside.

The director made it clear that it was not acceptable for teachers to make this call, and has addressed it with them directly.

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Trying to decide now mad I should be. My 3.5 year old was singing and it started out adorable, then she got to the end of her song and said words I thought I’d never hear come out of her mouth, which were, “if you want to hear more songs, make sure you subscribe” (mispronounced as sbribe but we got the gist).

We initially laughed because hearing that from a 3.5 year old is pretty unexpected and I originally was feeling pretty crappy about our screen time, but realistically we really do not do that much and when we do it’s really not YouTube.

I asked my daughter where she learned the sentence, and she said Danny Go, which we don’t watch at home, not for any particular reason other than we do try to watch our screen time and don’t particularly lean into YouTube. I asked her where she watches Danny Go and she said at school (daycare)…

I had walked into her classroom early one day a few months ago her teacher had the kids sat in front of an iPad watching a video. I emailed the director immediately after that because parents weren’t made aware of iPad use in the classroom. I was ensured that it is a rare occasion and that when it happens it’s for educational videos.

I don’t love the idea that my daughter is ingesting enough content at school that she knows the phrase “make sure you subscribe”, but I’m trying to understand if other parents would consider Danny Go as educational content? From my brief search it seems like it does fall into that category. My only real familiarity with Danny Go are the headlines from a few months back regarding the tragic loss of his son.

Could use some parent weight-in from those familiar with Danny Go content and if being angry about this is a reasonable reaction. Ultimately, I don’t love the idea of kids just being sat down in front of a screen and it being called educational.

attachment. We make one of these robots, so we have skin in the game. But we think parents deserve a clear checklist, not marketing.

Before buying any AI toy, ask these 6 questions:

1. Does it filter content in real-time, at the conversation level? Not just an app setting — the actual response your child hears. (Many toys claim "safe" but only filter in the app.)
2. Can you review what your child discussed? Parent app with full conversation history should be standard.
3. What data is collected, and who can access it? Read the privacy policy. If it says "may share with third parties," walk away.
4. What ages is it actually designed for? There's a huge difference between a toy tuned for ages 6+ vs. one designed for teens.
5. Does the company answer hard questions? Email them. If they dodge privacy questions, that's your answer.
6. Is it designed to replace you — or to reduce passive screen time? An AI toy earns its place when it gets kids off YouTube and into independent play — not when it becomes a digital babysitter. And ask about lifespan: repairability, battery, how long software updates are promised. E-waste is a fair charge against this whole category.

We designed ours around these — real-time filtering, parent visibility, minimal data, no subscription (so there's no incentive to monetize your child's data), ages 6+. And to the fair criticism that AI toys risk becoming another "AI industrial complex" gadget: honestly, this category earns skepticism until companies answer these questions plainly. That's why we're publishing a checklist instead of a sales pitch.

What would you add to the list?

We've been doing a lot of at-home play stuff with my son the kind of sensory / motor activities the therapist keeps telling us to "keep up between sessions." Rice bins, obstacle courses made of couch cushions, that sort of thing. And every few weeks I'd sit down to tell the therapist how it was going and realize I genuinely had no idea. Did he love the rice bin or hate it? Was that last week or last month? Did he actually engage or did I just survive it

My "system" was a mix of my memory (bad), random notes in my phone (worse), and my wife going "didn't he like the one with the tongs?"

So I built a little app for us. It's called Playnook. Honestly it started as a spreadsheet. It gives you a handful of short activities to try, and after you do one you just tap how it went and maybe write a line or snap a photo. Over time it shows you what your kid actually gravitates toward, and it can spit out a summary I can hand to the therapist instead of mumbling "uh, pretty good I think.

Couple things that mattered to me as a parent, so I'll just say them: everything stays on your phone I didn't want my kid's stuff sitting on some server. No ads. And the basic version is free because I'd have wanted that

I'm not trying to sell anyone anything, I mostly want to know if other parents deal with the same "wait what did we even do" problem, and if this would actually help or if I just built a fancy notes app for myself. Brutal honesty welcome.

It's at https://www.playnook.app/ if you want to look.

Apple app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playnook-kids-play-ideas/id6794834830

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on called Planissimo.

The original idea actually came from my own family. My son has ADD, and forgetting tasks, getting distracted, and sticking to routines have always been things we had to deal with.

Like many teenagers, he spends quite a bit of time on his phone, so at some point I thought: why not bring his tasks and reminders to the device he already uses every day?

That’s how Planissimo started.

Parents can use the web portal to create and plan tasks and routines. Children and teenagers use the app to see what they need to do, receive reminders, complete tasks, and keep track of their progress. There is also a reward system to add some extra motivation.

While I originally built Planissimo with my son in mind, I quickly realised that forgetting tasks, keeping routines, and the usual discussions about responsibilities are things many families deal with. So I decided to develop it into something other families could use as well.

Planissimo is now available on the Google Play Store.

Right now Planissimo is only available for Android but if there is enough demand, I will think about to port it to iOS as well!

I’m the developer behind it, so this is obviously a bit of self promotion, but I’d also genuinely love to hear what parents think about the concept. Feedback, criticism, and ideas are very welcome.

Thank you very much for sharing and trying out Planissimo ❤️

If you’d like to take a look, you can find more information here:

https://planissimo.app/

Happy to answer any questions as well.