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Hey i'd love to use it but may be add a little more description in the landing page to build confidencee before a parent can signup for the service! That has kept me away from signing up TBH. The premise of the product seems promising. I was thinking of building a whole device for parents to block content on the https traffic level
So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.
Instant nope from me.
Feature suggestion: Invite another parent on the Family page. It would be cool if both my wife and I were able to add approved videos.
It's almost as if YouTube should be the responsible party here, and yet... isn't.
I'm on the verge of building my own frontend to YT and using open source tooling to download only what I approve of, since their algo keeps shoving shit en masse at my kid.
Oh, and I have no idea what this app does, and don't care to sign up just to find out. Not cool.
Friction is the problem with something like this. If my kid grabs my phone, or uses the LG TV Youtube App, or the Apple TV app, or the PlayStation 5, can all of those default to KidScreen? If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me. If I were willing to become the kind of authoritarian taskmaster that tightly controls which devices my kids use to watch something at all times, I would already no…
To be fair, how the hell is that something an APP can do?
Friction is the problem with something like this. If my kid grabs my phone, or uses the LG TV Youtube App, or the Apple TV app, or the PlayStation 5, can all of those default to KidScreen? If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me. If I were willing to become the kind of authoritarian taskmaster that tightly controls which devices my kids use to watch something at all times, I would already no…
> If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me. To be fair, how the hell is that something an APP can do?
Technically, 0 is a finite number. It's also the optimal number of youtube videos for a kid.
I, too, am a parent of a toddler who would like more control over what YouTube feeds my kid's brain. It's almost as if YouTube should be the responsible party here, and yet... isn't. I'm on the verge of building my own frontend to YT and using open source tooling to download only what I approve of, since their algo keeps shoving shit en masse at my kid. Oh, and I have no idea what this app does, and don't care to sig…