To fellow children!

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    Greetings!
    About a year and a half ago, an idea occurred to me, and it seemed very, very promising.
    Accordingly, first an idea, then a story :)
    So, some time ago, cheap Chinese tablets with Android on board began to appear in large numbers. For all their imperfection, they have a huge plus - cheapness!
    I, as a happy father of a 2-year-old child then, thought - the perfect toy!

    I’ve matured, an action plan:
    1. We take a Chinese tablet
    2. We write a home application that will be launched at startup and replace the shell.
    The application should have bookmarks:
    • Games
    • Video
    • Books
    • + section For parents with a separate button and password for entry.

    3. We write our market ... well, you understand :) For games, we make the categories age / area of ​​knowledge, etc. it would be good if he was together with the library and the video library, but you need to look at copyright. The market sounds a little frightening at first, but in essence it’s a regular online store with electronic goods.
    4. We write on the tablet an application that will send everyone to our market
    5. We write a basic set of games and give developers interfaces to interact with our market
    6. Such cute things as purchases, delivery, branding, sales, service and so on ad infinitum.

    The toy will be good because:
    1. The possibilities are very great - new games, updates to old games, books with “live” illustrations, and so on
    2. A 7-inch tablet lies well in the hands of a child
    3. Due to the fact that the tablets are very inexpensive, the cost of the initial piece of iron can be made very small (I expected about 7.5 thousand rubles)
    4. Games for children at this age are very simple, which makes them easy to develop; in fact, they can be written right after Hello World
    5. Games for children at this age are not dynamic, which radically reduces the requirements for the speed of iron and its responsiveness, it is extremely rare to use multitouch for gameplay, although such tablets also singing curled.
    6. This is much more convenient than a laptop for cartoons and games - the child does not need to deal with the mouse, IT is compact, you can safely play in the queue to the doctor, sitting on a cart in the supermarket, and so on, it is easier to take a tablet so that there is something to keep the child walking to visit or restaurant.
    7. This is better than an iPad or Android phone because it is a child’s toy, which costs a lot less and does not participate in the parent’s business processes, and therefore the child is not afraid to put it in his hands and that’s it. And even if he drops it / comes / will drown it is not a disaster, but simply the breakdown of one of the toys.
    8. It is not necessary to convince anyone that children with rapture playing on tablets do not need to convince them, threads skipped on the hub.

    Now the story.
    After thinking about all this, I caught fire and immediately bought the most terrible tablet from China, it braked mercilessly. I downloaded several games from the Chinese market, including Kids connect the dots and Kids and numbers, in addition to that, hammer hammers into holes and so on. My daughter enthusiastically accepted it and very very willingly played with a new toy. I must say right away that since such glands almost never fall into the hands of children, there are very few games for young children. I’ll also say that I didn’t especially show the new toy to anyone, but if the children saw it, they immediately and very willingly started playing. In particular, once we sat in a queue at the clinic and, despite my reluctance to show the toy in public places, we got it out and started playing just in numbers - 3 more children gathered right next to us, much more adults, who also shouted out answers and poked on the screen and their mothers were very excited that my daughter solves simple arithmetic examples a little better. Of course, this is simply because she was not playing for the first time, but already then I had three mothers who did not hear anything about tablets and who wanted to buy this miracle for their children.
    The braking of the tablet caused problems only at the stage of launching the application, and it slowed down not childishly.

    My trouble is that I'm not a programmer at all, so from the very beginning I thought about how to put together a team.
    I’ll make a reservation right away that I was afraid to scream out loud about the idea to everyone, therefore I started to work around it.

    He started with two friends, it turned out badly. We can say that it did not work out in any way. I think that everyone is to blame, and so am I, I beg you not to be offended, if that. Looking ahead - I want to try here to click on those who wish and if they want to join - I will be very, very happy.
    We did not have a complete home application or market.
    In the process, I found a tablet manufacturer in China that we approved, bought a test copy. An order of magnitude more nimble, knows how to connect to a TV, plays video without problems, lives about 5 hours. It was before the new year, I think now there are better tablets.

    In general, time passed and I decided to implement plan B - to earn money and entrust the task in parts to freelancers. But while I was focusing on the first part of this plan, I saw that precious time was irretrievably lost.
    I read that in fact 1 in 1 idea will be realized by this summer, you can see for example here
    I was very upset then. By the way, appearance and price are just an unattainable ideal :)
    Then I thought:
    1. They also have nothing ready yet
    2. They are certainly great, but our platform can be open to third-party developers, and apparently they will not have
    3. Well, whoever knows about them in Russia at all, the games will not be great and powerful
    4. Not forever give up without even trying
    5. A great way to test the approach “loudly talk about the idea is not ready yet” and try whether you can put together a team on the hub and do something commercial, big and worthwhile,

    respectively, I call everyone! Write to me in PM or oskolade@gmail.com, who you are, how you can help the project.
    If this is of interest to you and you are considering whether to take part, just brief principles, so that later there will be no disappointments.

    1. I want to make the project at least break-even, and better profitable
    2. To make it more fun, all business information will be available at least to the benefit of the team members, and as a maximum to everyone who wants to get acquainted.
    3. Sorry if this disturbs anyone, but I want to reserve the right to make a final decision. I don’t know how to organize everything differently, I think otherwise there will be a mess. At the same time, I promise to be as democratic as reasonably possible. :)

    Even in conclusion, anticipating angry comments about the toy itself - I will be the first to subscribe to the fact that people should educate people, not a TV, laptop or tablet. But all children play games and it’s good when these games are interesting and develop our children.

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