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SEEKING FREELANCER | Tappity (YC S20) | Graphic Designer/Illustrator | Remote (US Time Zone)

Want to inspire tens of thousands of kids around the world every day with beautiful 2D art you create? Tappity is looking for a contract 2D digital designer/artist to create themed illustrations for our interactive science lessons.

About us: We're building the world’s largest interactive and educational video library for kids—starting with science! With engaging lessons that cover everything from platypuses to volcanos to Mars, kids can find every science topic and discover new ones to love—all in one place.

Website: https://www.tappityapp.com

If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know, please email us at founders [at] tappityapp.com with a link to your portfolio!

Tappity (YC S20) | Graphic Designer/Illustrator | Remote | Part-Time | https://www.tappityapp.com

Want to inspire tens of thousands of kids around the world every day with beautiful 2D art you create? Tappity is looking for a contract 2D digital designer/artist to create themed illustrations for our interactive science lessons.

About us: We're building the world’s largest interactive and educational video library for kids—starting with science! With engaging lessons that cover everything from platypuses to volcanos to Mars, kids can find every science topic and discover new ones to love—all in one place.

If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know, please email us at founders [at] tappityapp.com with a link to your portfolio!

Hey, thank you! You can purchase a subscription on our website: app.tappityapp.com

We are planning to making it available on web as well in the coming months!

Hah! Lots of Tappity families have been feature-requesting that we also teach math, history, and even art! We'd love to expand into other subjects one day--we think our format will serve them well :)

It's pretty awesome that families are discovering & loving Tappity! It makes it even more exciting to continue making it even better :)

Awesome! Kids are the toughest critics, so let us know what they think :)

I'm also not entirely sure why the post itself is grayed out. We didn't do anything to alter it, so I think it's normal!

Thank you, we appreciate your support! Do you mean the preview video in the App Store or somewhere else? We have a few clips on our website but trying it out in the app will probably give you a much better idea. (It's free to download!)

Whoa, that's amazing to hear! We're on it :)

We will! We're starting with web first towards the end of this year, but we're targeting Android next year.

Oh, definitely! We're learning that siblings love playing Tappity together. Well, at least one plays while the others watch :) So, having it on the big screen will really help, plus it'll be easier for parents who like to keep an eye on things as well!

Thank you! See you in a few years ;)

Well, you can't restart evolution! ;)

Joking aside, thanks for the feedback and excited to hear your daughter's enjoying Tappity. We're working on improving navigation in our next iteration, taking into consideration usage behavior like kids who may want to pause or restart!

Yes! It's astonishing how many views those types of videos get and how many downloads app developers would also get for producing apps with a similar vibe.

Our advisor, Björn Jeffery, does a fantastic job breaking down the kids app market, and in this section, summarizes how developers must do better in his blog. [1] The entire four-parter is a great read. [2]

As a team, we've actually talked about how technology can maybe one day create content but we feel there's still something very powerful about a real person talking that can't be replicated with technology yet. That being said, we are building technology that enables us to automate a lot of the interactive video production, which has been fun learning experience so far!

[1] https://www.bjornjeffery.com/2019/06/20/the-kids-app-market-... [2] https://www.bjornjeffery.com/2019/05/31/the-kids-app-market-...

Awesome! Feel free to email us with any feedback at hey@tappityapp.com

As awful as the situation is, it has certainly helped us connect with parents who really need a lot of help right now. But we built and designed Tappity long before COVID and we think it'll continue to be great for families long afterwards, too! :)

Right on :) We're expanding to desktop in the coming months!

Thank you for the kind words! We admire KA a lot. They've helped so many families pull through during the pandemic.

Also, as a team, we're really invested in sparking scientific curiosity beyond the screen as well, so it'd be great to have your kids participate in the Junior Science Fair!

Noted! :)

We think we've created an experience that has universal appeal for almost all kids, so we'd love to expand to other languages in the future.

That's the correct app! It's named differently in that region.

Totally understandable! We've spent a ton of time talking to parents, and not including ads was one of the first (and easiest) decisions we've made. The other was always offering a set of free and re-playable content that we expand every time we have a release, so families can experience Tappity before they ever have to commit to purchasing a subscription.

Ugh, I'm sorry. We are expanding to web fairly soon, though, so hopefully you can give it a try when it's live there!

Thank you for your kind words! We're working super hard right now on getting our newest form of content live soon, and we're excited to share it. It's a lot closer to the live-like experience we envisioned originally, plus we're introducing new characters!

Also, a great point about kids swiping randomly in order to proceed forward. One thing we're getting better at is explaining why an answer may not be right, so even if a kid chooses an answer randomly, they'll learn why that's not the correct answer.

We'd love to in the future! We have quite a few kids around the world using Tappity, and it's still honestly surreal when we get fan mail from kids in Vietnam or Oman, for example.

But at the moment, we're focused on making the Tappity experience and product as amazing as possible first before expanding to other languages.

Lawrence from Tappity here.

Excited to hear that your kid is enjoying Tappity so far! Also, thanks for the feedback about the payment page. We'll be adding an access point from the Parents Menu soon.

So sorry to hear about the bug, though. Would you mind emailing us at hey@tappityapp.com? Wanted to ask you a few questions to help us figure out what's going on.