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Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by mrborgen »

baldfat wrote: post #17

I run a Technology lab for close to 300 3-5 year olds for Head Start. I also am the consultant on app purchases for our whole agency of over 1000 students in over 50 classrooms. I think you may have made the app I have been searching for. Pre-school students needs apps that let them create and not just "glorified work sheets" or some story told to them. I will let you know in the next few weeks how it works in my cla…

That's awesome, thank you! It will be very interesting to hear the results from you classrooms. My email is per@discofingers.com.

Your students are a bit under our target group, I'll admit that. We've found that pre-school students might struggle with understanding the concept. But they still like to play with the characters and use the voice record functionallity.

Re: Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

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Post by ja27 »

dagvonkr wrote: post #36
niix wrote: post #35

Really want to try this, when is the iPhone version coming? :)

That's next! We hope to make enough money to make the iPhone version. Follow our launch diary to see what happens:)

It's questionable whether it's worth doing an iPhone version. Most iPad kid apps aren't but I think this one might be worth it, since it appeals to more adults as well. The ability to make ringtones adds a lot of phone appeal too. Certainly much easier and financially rewarding than doing an Android version.

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Post by ANH »

MiguelHudnandez wrote: post #37
ANH wrote: post #22

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app. * How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place…

Toddler Mode: For iPads able to run iOS 6+, you can activate "Guided Access" mode. Apps being run in this mode can have disabled hardware buttons and deactivate certain areas on-screen. Once the global setting is enabled (Settings > General > Accessibility), triple-clicking the home button activates and deactivates the mode. There is a passcode, distinct from the unlock code, to exit "Guided Access." I became familia…

I knew about Guided Access, but I forgot it allowed you to disable specific regions of the screen. Thanks for the reminder.
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