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I am torn, my kid loves playing on the computer (any screen) more than he does his doing chores, and combining these would be great, but the gamification of my parental responsibility does not sit well. I really appreciate your work and effort but chore > reward is not my goal or method.

What if the game itself has more depth (learning for example) while remaining as engaging? Simple dopamine triggers they have enough.



Totally hear your point! Chore > reward is not our long term goal either. I think you actually nailed it that our longer-term goal is to add more depth (i.e. integrating books, math problems, other learning resources, etc.) into the platform to wean off of just chores. This is just our MVP state right now where we had launched a small solution that parents have been expressing a need for.


Weaning off chores but adding more and more to the platorm feels ominous, dystopian even.

The end goal should be to wean off of Joon, not suck more and more of external meaningful actions in.

I understand though that the business incentive and the parenting incentive are hard to align in this case.


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