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Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

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Re: Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

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Post by tappityapp »

mrkurt wrote: post #11

Oh this is great. My kids _love_ educational videos. I've been looking for a way to get them more access minus all the garbage on Youtube.

Awesome! Try out Tappity and let me know how it goes. Email hey@tappityapp.com with any feedback.

Re: Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

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Post by ltran »

Zippogriff wrote: post #9

We just found this the other day! It seems great and my kid's really into it! But I tried to give you money to access more than the demo lessons and couldn't. Hit the 3-month sub on my kid's ipad, sent request to parent ipad (mine) to authorize, authorized it, and... nothing. No payment occurred, no access granted, and now even after a re-install that middle option and "restore" both seem to be non-functional. Can st…

Lawrence from Tappity here.

Excited to hear that your kid is enjoying Tappity so far! Also, thanks for the feedback about the payment page. We'll be adding an access point from the Parents Menu soon.

So sorry to hear about the bug, though. Would you mind emailing us at hey@tappityapp.com? Wanted to ask you a few questions to help us figure out what's going on.

Re: Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

Hey, we tried Tappity on my 7 year old and it became his preferred app for a while. He burned through all of the content in a matter of weeks.

The little achievements and interactive bits were very effective at keeping him engaged. I'm not sure how much he's retaining, and for the multiple choice questions he seemed to just choose things randomly until he could proceed forward, but he definitely picked up at least a handful of random factoids that he'd tell us about later.

I couldn't have been happier about his interest in that instead of Youtube Kids videos. So much content for kids is just dumb stuff that is focused on keeping kids' eyeballs but not on anything else. The educational apps seem to be mostly focused on random simple math problems or spelling. Science-focused content for young kids has been practically non-existent, so we tried Tappity because it was pretty much the only option. We were very pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for making engaging content that I don't feel bad about exposing my kids to. Please make more content.

Re: Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

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Post by ltran »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #7

Any plan for other languages?

We'd love to in the future! We have quite a few kids around the world using Tappity, and it's still honestly surreal when we get fan mail from kids in Vietnam or Oman, for example.

But at the moment, we're focused on making the Tappity experience and product as amazing as possible first before expanding to other languages.

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