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I am thinking seriously about open sourcing this. It will log into sites to check for point progress and restore access after some points are earned. My daughter only needs 2 or 3 minutes of khan academy to earn enough points to get youtube back. I am proud of what my friend Kris and I built, but getting tired of managing a side project / playing startup.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/studycity/id1339396223?mt=8

website is studycity dot org

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This is a really great idea, but I wouldn’t have really got from the app listing and screenshots that this is what the app does.

Your comment here explains it much better than the App Store description IMO.

Maybe some help from a UI designer and a little rebranding could help a lot!

Thanks Scott. I totally agree. Most frustrating challenge is that I have had many people (250+) say "this is amazing" etc. But it has been very difficult to convert that interest to a significant user base. Part of the challenge is at one end of the scale, parents don't care and at the other end of the scale parents have the issue under control. Even if parents love the concept, getting them to become users is way more difficult than I imagined.

Would love to have something like this for myself. Perhaps watch a few Udemy/LinuxAcademy videos to restore my access to YouTube/Twitch, haha. :)

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