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This is also a big gripe of mine. I created an app that can be used as a fun "neutral" third-party when instructing my toddler to do something.

What I want it to say:

> Alexa, tell %NAME% it's time (for a nap|to go to bed|to eat dinner)

What I have to say:

> Alexa, tell Toddler Boss to tell %NAME% it's time to go to bed.

It's not natural sounding at all.

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Exactly! Funny you should say that... one of the first apps I tried to make was to just say "Alexa, tell [my wife's or daughter's name] I love her" and I gave up because unless I name the app with my wife's name as the app name it won't work the way I want.

Russ Hanneman?

This is what he did on HBO's Silicon Valley. It was quite..weird.

He's disrupting parenting!

Could you not create an app called %NAME% which then uses Toddler Boss?

Ha! I didn't even think about that. But it's not ideal for vertically scaling the family :)

Names are cheap... cheaper than kids anyway!

How about speaking directly to your child? ;)

I guess...

I trust to publish such an app on their store (just to go through the process...they were giving away sweatshirts). they rejected me on the grounds of targeting kids. I'm guessing you never tried to publish this?

Nah it was just a fun project to introduce myself to the platform. I'm surprised they did that to you though. I wonder if that policy will change in the future considering there's tons of apps that target kids in their app store.

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