SparklyBoba
SparklyBoba

App for your mom

I see my mom struggle with boredom everyday and is on Facebook just browsing through the same old posts. I want to build an app for Indian women , especially homemakers . A safe place where they can talk amongst each other. What do you think of this ? Would be willing to pay 200/month towards membership fee ?

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GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

My mum - Watch yt for food recipes ❌ Watch yt for exercise and yoga❌ Read news on Google ❌ Mindless scroll fb stories ✅ I fucking hate it. Facebook has done to our parents what they said watching too much TV would do to us when we were kids. Not to mention all the fake and polarising posts on fb.

SqueakyPretzel
SqueakyPretzel
Amazon27mo

Especially the fake and polarizing videos!

MagicalSushi
MagicalSushi

I tried doing something but I found many old-age people don't find anything entertaining other than YouTube. Any other kind of content doesn't create a hook. Majority of them don't have the zeal to learn anything new. They just want to do something effortlessly and entertain themselves. YouTube best solves their purpose.

WigglySushi
WigglySushi
Student27mo

News has been solving this for them from past 4 decades 🗿

SqueakyBanana
SqueakyBanana

For them it's a TV but in their hands

FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo27mo

Don’t incentivise the gossip 👀

TwirlyCupcake
TwirlyCupcake
Gitlab27mo

The irony is that you are saying this in grapevine :-)

SillyDonut
SillyDonut
TCS27mo

Yup...for old age people...it's a must need.

Same holds true for teens which Snapchat is exploiting.

Algorithm should be different for age groups unlike meta and Google

SwirlyTaco
SwirlyTaco

I thought Meta was for old people.

SillyDonut
SillyDonut
TCS27mo

Meta has 3 groups..

Fb old age Insta gen z and millenials WhatsApp freemium model means all except zombies

FuzzySushi
FuzzySushi

We don't have a cable network, hence mom watches serials on Zee5 and Hotstat. Recently Zee5 moved two of mom's favorite serials to premium category, so you need to pay 700/yr to watch it.

Mom stopped watching those and started watching a new one 👍

They won't spend any extra money.

SwirlyTaco
SwirlyTaco

Anything but grapes as rewards!

GroovyKoala
GroovyKoala

Sour?

SwirlyBoba
SwirlyBoba

A great idea is a youtube frontend with custom (or even managed) feed for different genres like kitchen, gardening, jobs, health, devotion. Not sure moms want to talk to other stranger moms.

SillyMarshmallow
SillyMarshmallow
Student27mo

There you just gave the app a name! StrangerMoms

SparklyBoba
SparklyBoba

I see a lot of people post old people won’t pay for the app , my idea was the children would pay for it for better quality content (fact checked) and activities which will prevent them from consuming fake news etc. So the question you as their child would be willing to pay for it ?

GigglyDonut
GigglyDonut

@ShipOne01, what's your skillset? I empathize with this problem and I'm sure many children who love their moms will too. I can help with product and marketing.
Maybe we can connect and start some research. And yes I'd pay if she gets an alternative to these toxic reels/misinformation. But curating content adds costs and a battle all SMs are facing. It's a struggle between scale and quality.

JazzyWalrus
JazzyWalrus

Middle aged or old people will never pay for an online service

SparklyBoba
SparklyBoba

I was hoping the children would pay for it , cause it’s going to have fact checked content, and some activities rather than consuming shitty posts on Facebook and fake news from WhatsApp.

SquishyBanana
SquishyBanana

Nobody would pay a Penny. Ads is the only revenue source. Build something useful for mothers like healthcare app or something.

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