Stay-at-home dad raising funds to invent a cool new app for exhausted parents.
Stay-at-home dad Rick Polito has a great idea. An app for your phone or tablet that helps guide a parent through the invention of a custom bedtime story, called Shake-n-Tell.
Kids typically ask for a story at bedtime when parents are tired, and the idea of drawing plots and characters out of thin air may feel intimidating. An improvisation engine rather than an interactive storybook, the Shake-n-Tell app guides users through the storytelling experience with “flash card” prompts for plot points and characters that encourage them to elaborate, exaggerate and describe: just add personality, shake, and serve. Each shake randomly pulls users through a plot arc with billions of permutations in each Story Pack.
Cool idea, right?
Rick and the others at Shake-and-Tell are now in the process of raising funds to develop the app. If you want to be in on this project, head over to Kickstarter where Shake-n-Tell is raising capital to finance the project.
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