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RileyJames 2 hours ago [-]
I’d be in the market for this, but didn’t get enough info to sign up.
My first questions were:
- do I need a YouTube account?
- do I need a premium YouTube account?
- can I use it on my tv?
- and more generally, how does it work? (Which should answer all above)
Current solution is: download YouTube videos my son is interested in to Plex, watch them on the tv (or iPad)
I also have YouTube premium, but barely use it.
andreidbr 2 hours ago [-]
Same for me. I also download videos and put them on a USB stick plugged into the TV.
aspanda 2 hours ago [-]
Hey i'd love to use it but may be add a little more description in the landing page to build confidencee before a parent can signup for the service! That has kept me away from signing up TBH. The premise of the product seems promising. I was thinking of building a whole device for parents to block content on the https traffic level
zikduruqe 1 hours ago [-]
On the webpage - "Learn more in your parent account: About."
So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.
Instant nope from me.
jzig 2 hours ago [-]
Agree with other commenters this needs a better landing page with some screens or a video demo. Especially for a product where building trust with your family would be a necessity.
jonhohle 21 minutes ago [-]
Sell this to school districts. This is what Google should have done from the beginning.
blakesterz 2 hours ago [-]
Looks interesting but I would want some public information about how it works and who is doing it, etc... The complete lack of any available details must be stopping many potential users.
spking 57 minutes ago [-]
I love this! Thank you OP.
Feature suggestion: Invite another parent on the Family page. It would be cool if both my wife and I were able to add approved videos.
Aeolun 1 hours ago [-]
How does it stop Youtube from showing recommendations?
pmarreck 56 minutes ago [-]
I, too, am a parent of a toddler who would like more control over what YouTube feeds my kid's brain.
It's almost as if YouTube should be the responsible party here, and yet... isn't.
I'm on the verge of building my own frontend to YT and using open source tooling to download only what I approve of, since their algo keeps shoving shit en masse at my kid.
Oh, and I have no idea what this app does, and don't care to sign up just to find out. Not cool.
nsxwolf 1 hours ago [-]
Friction is the problem with something like this. If my kid grabs my phone, or uses the LG TV Youtube App, or the Apple TV app, or the PlayStation 5, can all of those default to KidScreen?
If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me. If I were willing to become the kind of authoritarian taskmaster that tightly controls which devices my kids use to watch something at all times, I would already not need KidScreen.
HumblyTossed 10 minutes ago [-]
> If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me.
To be fair, how the hell is that something an APP can do?
nsxwolf 5 minutes ago [-]
Yeah that's what I'm saying. So why are we making apps that pretend to do it?
bpodgursky 1 hours ago [-]
Technically, 0 is a finite number. It's also the optimal number of youtube videos for a kid.
My first questions were: - do I need a YouTube account? - do I need a premium YouTube account? - can I use it on my tv? - and more generally, how does it work? (Which should answer all above)
Current solution is: download YouTube videos my son is interested in to Plex, watch them on the tv (or iPad)
I also have YouTube premium, but barely use it.
So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.
Instant nope from me.
Feature suggestion: Invite another parent on the Family page. It would be cool if both my wife and I were able to add approved videos.
It's almost as if YouTube should be the responsible party here, and yet... isn't.
I'm on the verge of building my own frontend to YT and using open source tooling to download only what I approve of, since their algo keeps shoving shit en masse at my kid.
Oh, and I have no idea what this app does, and don't care to sign up just to find out. Not cool.
If it can't solve all those, there's absolutely no utility for me. If I were willing to become the kind of authoritarian taskmaster that tightly controls which devices my kids use to watch something at all times, I would already not need KidScreen.
To be fair, how the hell is that something an APP can do?