Show HN: HTML Planet for Kids – A HTML and CSS Course for Children Hi HN, We are Matjaz (that’s me) and Benjamin - a father & son team - from HTML Planet for Kids (https://ift.tt/3mKf9G9), an online space where children learn and create with HTML & CSS. I’m the author of Pinegrow Web Editor (launched on HN seven years ago) and Ben is a 11 year old boy full of creativity and ingenuity. In early 2020 our family embarking on a journey around the world. Thanks to the Covid pandemic we immediately got stuck at our first destination. With time saved on not traveling around, Ben and I finished our Maths lessons early and had some extra time to do a project together. We did research on existing HTML & CSS courses and discovered that all teach HTML & CSS exclusively through coding, and after the course is done, they offer no follow-up to engage kids in using their newly acquired skills. We decided to take a month off and create a HTML & CSS course for children, based on the simplified online version of our web editor software. That was more than a year ago :) The quick one month project turned into a year of work on creating the course structure, designing and recording the adventures, improving the website editor, testing… But, every evening, we showed up for work and step by step, got HTML Planet for Kids ready for release. It has 60+ interactive lessons and projects that teach children enough HTML & CSS to be able to create simple websites. Our visual editor lets children jump straight into using HTML & CSS, without having to memorize the code syntax and property names. Along the way, they get naturally familiar with coding and can start using the built-in code editor. Completing the lessons is just the beginning. Kids then use their skills to create projects (websites, experiments, toys) with HTML Planet. We plan to run monthly challenges and showcases to keep children engaged. If you are a parent, caretaker or teacher - or just feel like going on a space adventure, visit HTML Planet for Kids and take it for a spin. No registration is needed to do the first ten adventures. Looking forward to your feedback! Ben & Matjaz https://ift.tt/3mKf9G9 October 12, 2021 at 11:46PM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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