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Parent Driven DevelopmentEpisode 018: Designing Apps/Digital Products for Parents00:24 Welcome, Anne Halsall and Sara Mauskopf!Anne is the co-founder & head of product of at Winnie. Sara is the CEO.Great app to use for travel!Gives parents child-friendly reccomendations for activities, places to eat, things to see.Winnie is a crowdsourced platform similar to Yelp or Quora where you can both ask questions or give advice.You can post under a pseudonym or anonymously in a community that is very well monitored and moderated. Grew organically from private beta testing. The community would add members: friends and family.Winnie is venture-backed. It's very important to keep the app free and accessible to all.Parents are wonderful participants and well-behaved to boot.Content that could be considered harmful is not distributed.Family-friendly workplace.Kids give you motivation.Attitudes towards parents are changing.Links to the Licensing Database to make sure that places are legit.Childcare providers aren't necessarily web marking gurus -- many do not have sweet websites or the time/budget to create them.Rage-driven Development.Connecting parents based on special interests. Mandy: Her daughter reffered to Hillary Clinton as Harley Quinn (#Fail) Jess: Comparing voting to choosing between chocolate cake and ice cream (#Genius) Allison: Suggesting her toddler to "stop and think." (#Genius) Sara: Her daughter needs to cut back on the watching of Daniel Tiger after renaming her sister after the sister on the show! (#Fail) Anne: Her 4-year-old confused "voting day" with "boating day" and broke his heart. (#Fail)Follow & SupportPlease follow us @parentdrivendev on Twitter or email us at [email protected]. Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com.Support us via Patreon and get access to our our Slack Community.PanelChris SextonMandy MooreJosh PuetzJess SzmajdaAllison McMillan
