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Show HN: Review my startup, Kiddom - made for kids (itunes.apple.com)

9 points by ahsanhilal ↗ HN
Hey everyone,

I would like to tell HN about our startup and our first product, an iPad app. HN has helped me a lot through the ups and downs of making a product and I would really like to get feedback from the HN community.

Kiddom is a smart learning environment based on the iPad. It provides an integrated system for parents to download learning apps, assign them to multiple children according to skill, monitor child performance and get some good insights into how well your child is learning

Kiddom strikes the right balance between entertainment and education, and helps parents and teachers passively monitor children. Kiddom also provides a single platform for all children in the house, so your 5 year old and 8 year old can be assigned different apps but monitored through one platform.

Our games help children to learn through story-telling, games and voiceovers. At launch, we will release 5 different games, where children employ math skills to help the main character, Alan, save his friends.

More information is available on our website here:

www.kiddom.co

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ahsanhilal
More information available on our website:

Http://www.kiddom.co

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chanced
The site looks nice but there is a lot going on and the fact that you have to scroll down to get more information is not intuitive at all. This is especially true on the homepage and the "How It Works" page.
ahsanhilal
Yes we decided on making a parallax scroll. I will make some design changes to ask people to scroll down to get more information.

Thank you for the input

[dead] tatianaAFA
site looks much better and is faster on mobile. Maybe less moving objects ?
ahsanhilal
Thanks for the input...will definitely consider removing some things
[dead] mustafaakin
It is just an iPhone application, why name it as a startup?
abraininavat
You call it "the next evolution in education." Could you elaborate on the evolutionary aspects of the app?
ahsanhilal
Sure...I call it evolutionary because what we are trying to replace is the workbook. I have personally tutored plenty of kids and see them struggle with a workbook consistently was a pain. Kiddom makes learning fun while making sure that parents are always in sync with what their kids are learning.

Everytime your child starts a game on kiddom, we monitor what, how and when he is doing it, and try to use those analytics to provide actionable insights to parents.

[dead] phyomhan
Definitely, impressed with the app. Animation, graphics, and game design is great, but I am really excited about the analytics. Do you plan on showing average scores across different age groups? I have a 6 year old and would like to be able to see how he is performing in comparison to his peers.
mhw
It would be helpful to know what age range the app is aimed at.
ahsanhilal
Certainly. The current games we have in there are for age ranges 4-6, but it varies drastically on individual abilities of children. Right now the lessons include most stuff that would taught to a first grader in mathematics.

We plan to have lessons and games in there for age ranges 4-9 in the next couple of months.

I also want to say that these games also adapt to the child's skill level as they play in order to not make kids frustrated

[dead] loveyou
How are you able to have such a high age range? Did you have a teacher on board to design lesson plans?
ahsanhilal
We do consult and work with teachers to get our content
[dead] joannaefactor
How many lessons do you anticipate will be added to the app?
ahsanhilal
we currently have 5 of them in the app, and will probably add 4-5 more in the next month. Since all these are games it takes a while to build them for us