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Yes, the app apk itself has to be side-loaded so you'd likely have to confirm downloads from unknown sources.
The logging of books is definitely made to be done by the parent with the kid at their side. Understandably, every family is going to have differing rules about screen time, and the animations upon logging are mostly my own preference for my own kids and for not gamifying it too much.
It would also be to counter-productive to have an app that's meant to lower time preference, that's also smashing dopamine reward centres in the brain too often, if that makes sense.
I tend to agree about the prominence of the fraud detection being unnecessary, and the discovery process being challenging. Those are excellent points, so thanks for sharing.
As for the 20$/year, some kids can reach the first milestone in 8-9 months, other will take 16-24, but the point is to lower time preference and learn to save. That would be the excess value the app is providing.
For me personally, for my kids to develop a low time preference is something I consider to be priceless, as it is the foundation for all advanced civilization and high culture.
ps: I just added another tool (free) parents can use with their kids to have fun and lower time preference. www.marshmallowreading.com/strength
I checked it out. I tend not to install extra apps on my phone, so perhaps I missed out on some of the experience there, but as far as the web app goes, I'm not sure it would work for my kids.
I'm not sure that they would find logging the books they read all that exciting. Also, I think you don't need to make the fraud protection dialog quite so prominent. Probably if I'm logged in as a kid, all I want to see is my balance and the stack of books I've read.
Perhaps you could also allow parents to set a word count and require their children to write a sentence or two about the book before the log it.
Also, I'm not sure that I see $20/year of value in this. The delayed gratification of building a bitcoin stack might work as motivation for some children, but I suspect for many, heavier reliance on fun cartoons and animations would probably be more powerful.
Honestly, the biggest problem I have is with discovery. I have trouble finding new books for them to find. I like the idea of giving my kids bitcoin bounties to shoot for, but I think it would really appeal to me if I could use the app to also discover new books for them to read.
But I think you have a cool concept and I could it playing a role in education.