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Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by shlip »

gantengx wrote: post #5
TheSilva wrote: post #3

Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone... I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1]. Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not…

Yeah, that's a valid concern. We use an older spare iPhone for this, which worked out well. iOS doesn't have a "Kids Corner" equivalent unfortunately - you'd need to use Screen Time restrictions to lock down the device (block apps/calls/etc) but still need to unlock the phone

There was an article not long ago about using Apple Configurator to dumb down an iphone : https://stopa.io/post/297

Maybe this could be handy.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by presentation »

TheSilva wrote: post #3

Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone... I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1]. Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not…

Maybe can do basically the same thing with a dumb SMS/MMS-based interface actually, text-adventure style. Then could do it with a dumb phone.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by W0lfEagle »

Downvote me but: kids shouldn't have phones. No disrespect to the author and congratulations on the launch and all. I just find the entire concept completely dystopian. Like, play, enjoy your life kids! There's plenty of time for entirely unnecessary "tasks"/"work" later in life.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by sjw987 »

ale42 wrote: post #13

Not to criticize the idea, but do we really need to give our kids yet _more_ screen time, especially young ones? Pedagogically, what is the message for them here? You need a phone for everything?

Gotta get them hooked early. You really shouldn't need apps at any age to keep you on track with tasks.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by p0w3n3d »

W0lfEagle wrote: post #14

Downvote me but: kids shouldn't have phones. No disrespect to the author and congratulations on the launch and all. I just find the entire concept completely dystopian. Like, play, enjoy your life kids! There's plenty of time for entirely unnecessary "tasks"/"work" later in life.

I think I'm heading to the place were you already are. I gave access to phones to my kids, and all the apps that monitor their time fail, when there is no will in them to stop. Also doing any task with the phone makes them navigate away (to instant messaging with their colleagues etc)

But on the other hand - the world is digital now. I have no idea how to make them learn good habits on finding things on the internet while not falling to the infinite well of doomscrolling etc.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by dmos62 »

sjw987 wrote: post #15
ale42 wrote: post #13

Not to criticize the idea, but do we really need to give our kids yet _more_ screen time, especially young ones? Pedagogically, what is the message for them here? You need a phone for everything?

Gotta get them hooked early. You really shouldn't need apps at any age to keep you on track with tasks.

It's easy to judge, but the alternative might be a kid that's on his phone anyway, but struggles to have a structured routine.

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by gantengx »

shizcakes wrote: post #9

Suggestion for the site: it references “no navigation” a few times, but I am having a hard time understanding what that means. What kind of navigation is meant here? What are the boundaries of the navigation limits? Various definitions of “navigation” I can think of: - no switching tasks in the app - some sort of phone-wide parental control - maps is disabled ;-)

In this case, navigation means in-app navigation. When a task timer is running, kids can't switch to other tasks, go back to the main screen, or change profiles. They have to complete the current task first

The goal is to keep them focused on one thing at a time without the temptation to jump around :)

Re: Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

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Post by subpixel »

W0lfEagle wrote: post #14

Downvote me but: kids shouldn't have phones. No disrespect to the author and congratulations on the launch and all. I just find the entire concept completely dystopian. Like, play, enjoy your life kids! There's plenty of time for entirely unnecessary "tasks"/"work" later in life.

Parent, 100% agree. Even worse, approaching device access like a reward to be earned is a bad idea.
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