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 ?
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.
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.
GV_influenzer
Student
a year ago
News has been solving this for them from past 4 decades 🗿
WideDiaper
Stealth
a year ago
For them it's a TV but in their hands
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
Meta has 3 groups..
Fb old age
Insta gen z and millenials
WhatsApp freemium model means all except zombies
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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.
Nobody would pay a Penny. Ads is the only revenue source. Build something useful for mothers like healthcare app or something.
Demon
Stealth
a year ago
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.
InternKhabar
Student
a year ago
There you just gave the app a name! StrangerMoms
tea
Stealth
a year ago
There is GenWise
satan
Stealth
a year ago
Giving a platform to Sharla aunty is not a good idea!
CaptainLazzo
Stealth
a year ago
Middle aged or old people will never pay for an online service
Supandi
Stealth
a year ago
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.
Supandi
Stealth
a year ago
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 ?
@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.
