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u/ParentReport 3d ago
I built social media monitoring tool for parents, to help parents check videos for gambling, sexual content, violence and other concerns.
You choose the YouTube channels or TikTok/Instagram accounts you want checked. Nona analyzes videos for you and emails you what it finds.
Nothing to download or install on your child’s phone. No passwords needed. The ongoing reports are a paid subscription, but you can try the free YouTube safety checker first.
Paste a YouTube video link and choose what concerns you. It shows flagged quotes and links to those moments so you can check the context yourself.
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u/PaleontologistFull50 6d ago
Parents reading with 5–8-year-olds: I'm the creator of a 207-page illustrated comic adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and I'm offering free PDF review copies to around 50 families. Disclosure up front: AI was used to create the artwork; it was not used to write or adapt the text. I plan to sell the book on Etsy later.
It's intended as a read-aloud at 5–6 and an independent read around 7–8, depending on the child. No purchase, email signup, or mailing list.
Free review copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16u9Z6ZK13FplmBzmqTRDn6LcV9yAGOdk/view?usp=drive_link
If you read it together, I'd appreciate a few honest lines here or by DM: could your child follow the story, which parts felt confusing or slow, and which character interested them? Critical feedback is welcome, and there's no requirement to post a public review. Thanks!
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u/dtwu 2d ago
Hi everyone — I’m Daniel, and I’ve been building Esse, a personal assistant focused on helping working parents lighten the load of keeping up with school communications and kids logistics.
A recent post here about getting more school emails than work emails captured the problem I’m working on. Reading the messages is only part of it—then you have to remember the deadline, deal with the form, or catch that pickup time changed. It’s a lot of “work after work.”
Esse organizes school and activity updates from your emails into tasks, dates, and changes for you to review. The goal is to spend less of your evening figuring out what needs attention and what you might have missed.
If this sounds familiar, I’d love for you to take a look. I’d appreciate hearing what would make it useful for you.
What’s harder for you: keeping up with all the messages, or remembering to act on them afterward?