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Show HN: Review my startup, Kiddom - made for kids

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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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It would be helpful to know what age range the app is aimed at.

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

More information available on our website:

Http://www.kiddom.co

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.

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

You call it "the next evolution in education." Could you elaborate on the evolutionary aspects of the app?

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.

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