I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer: homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I’m working on turning it into a product.
I've been using something like Google Family Link, which works fine, except that it ties in to Google Family, along with YouTube, Play Store, Google One. I'd have to kick my sister out of the group to monitor another daughter and it means there's a limit on the number of children you have; such terrible design.
I do want to give them a little privacy and it gets to the appropriate level. Like restricting some apps at certain times, access to chrome but not xhamster. Locking it for certain periods of time and having them request more screen time past 4 hrs/day. Locking the phone whenever they've barricaded themselves in the room the whole morning.
I don't necessarily mind that they're watching YT or TikTok and such. I just want to kick them out of the doom scrolling cycle every now and then.
I'm sure you're doing it with good intentions, but it's a bit sad that children will now grow up with so few rights over their privacy.
As someone who grew up on the internet, I feel that the freedom it gave me to explore the world at my own pace allowed me to develop my personality. The thought that every second of my online life will be logged in an app and accessible to my parents honestly sounds horrible.
I respect every parent's decision regarding how they raise their children, but I invite you to reflect on whether growing up under this level of surveillance is something you would have wanted for yourselves.
I really like this idea of silent monitoring. Monitoring and talking about bad things seen weeks/months later. Because while I can block everything I want at home… there are other kids with free Internet access where everything is available and then I have no idea what’s happening.
Nice one, this looks great. The kids are old enough to work the remote here now so I was looking into how we block certain channels, my surprise when you can’t. Well not without totally gimping your YouTube account on the TV.
When my kids were small, I was fighting with crazy Youtube videos. Kids started with something innocent and soon were watching sick and disturbing pieces.
Giant plastic spiders chasing kids. Momo. Kids behaving silly in front of camera and playing silly games. Kids with masks of superheroes. Something about SCP.
This was (is) Elsa-gate. It was a whole big thing.
Honestly they looked like cartoon shorts that belong on adultswim or something. It's hilarious that they were unironically being watched by kids, but also not.
Interesting product. Do you play the videos from YouTube, if yes how do you embed them in your app. If no, do you host these videos on your end and how are they licensed from those content creators.
Why do Russians like Putin? Look at Ukraine. Ukraine is Russia without Putin. Poor, ruled by american agents and going to disappear as a state, just like Russia in 90s.
This has to be a joke. Economically, Russia performed worse than Ukraine even with Putin invading Ukraine. Literally anyone would do better than Putin. A random person from the street would do better.
Choose 1 photo that you like among 4 random photos. Repeat 10 times. Can your friends guess which ones you liked? See if they know your taste. http://contaste.com
