I'm a Full-time mama 👩👦 & part-time indie hacker 👩🏻💻 - Building Homeskoolers | AMA
👋🏻 Hey Indie-hackers,
I'm building Homeskoolers.
2 years back I left my high-paying software dev career to spend time with my newly born.
I started learning about mindful parenting & researched a lot to raise an emotionally healthy child.
Two things that grabbed my attention were respectful parenting & homeschooling. And, we’ve decided to homeschool our son once he is ready.
If you’re a homeschooler then you will agree that finding the right homeschooling resources & information is really hard & time-consuming.
So, I’m building Homeskoolers. A directory of curated homeschooling resources, for homeschoolers vetted by homeschoolers.
Ask me anything!
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"homeschooling resources & information is really hard & time-consuming"
There are also many other hard & time consuming things in a parent's life, as I'm sure you'll know as a full-time mama.
My 5 cents, from a parent perspective:
Make sure to be as straightforward in your copy as possible. Parents are busy creatures who often don't get the full 8 hours sleep at night and in general tend to have a chronic lack of time running errands and so on.
I've seen a few startups aimed at parents, but they were mostly overloaded with text / content and it was really easy to get lost, needless to say I've stopped using them.
I also came up with "The Busy Dad Test" and I wrote about it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-busy-dad-test-9a4eb165b8
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Hope this helps and good luck!
Hey @ptrm,
your point makes sense. I will look into it to make it more short & clear.
I love this "busy dad test". 😅
The idea is really great would love to hear more about the idea in-depth, about USP, exact target market, And Being a UX designer I would love to help you in designing experiences for your homeschoolers :D.
Thanks, Nitin. ✨
That's so kind of you. I will definitely let you know if I need your help. :-D
I will post my initial drafts n Twitter. Catch me there.
👋 Hi from another indiehacking parent.
Your project seems like a super useful resource for homeschoolers. If I learn of any friends doing homeschooling I'll be sure to share this with them.
Best of luck!
👋🏻 Hi,
Thank you, Rishi. I appreciate that.
Hey great to know about your work, I did something similar. I have been using hybrid approach to educate my son. I have started a blog educationnext.in where I publish blog related to education and parenting. I send newsletters to parents to raise awareness about mindful education and conscious parenting here educationnext.beehiiv.com
I was wondering how are you letting people know about your website.
When do you officially finish building the project?
And what do you plan on doing after you're done with the product?
Hi there,
Pretty cool to hear that! I am working on a project to make dictations easier: flashdictation.com.
Are you interested to partner?
Cheers, Kiru
Hey Kiru,
Your project looks great. Design is super neat. 👌
Currently I’m not looking for a partner. :) Will keep you in mind to discuss if I change my plan in future.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Cheers
Oh! It's cool!
Thanks, Alex!
Awesome, hope your launch goes well! Good time to enter the home schooling market. I hope to homeschool my children when the time comes, hopefully, I’ll remember this resource!
Thank you for kind words, Rjbrown3.
What is your USP ?
In the first MVP version of the product, we are helping homeschoolers find vetted resources by other homeschoolers. Parents can read reviews & share feedback on resources categorized by topics.
Sounds good. Best of luck with it !!
Thanks, Kashif!
Hello Syeda, great wish you the best of luck with the project and all the other responsibilities . I think this is a great timing for this project. How do you plan to monetize the directory?
Thank you, Linkology.
Our plan is to promote featured resources.
I don’t have a question, but thought I’d wish you much luck! Building, teaching and being a full time mum sounds exhausting! :)
Thank you, Shanunau.
Our approach towards homeschooling is more of unschooling. We aim to raise a self-directed learner who will be least dependant on us. :-)
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