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📚 Started as a summer reading app. Now it's year-round.

The streak your kid
won't want to break.

Pick a track — reading, math, music, chores, calm. Your kid gets a short daily routine, ideas that match what they love, and points toward prizes you choose.

6 Tracks
9 Kid-picked themes
K–5 Ages 5–11
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Parent section
PIN protected
Family prizes
🎬 Pick the movie
20 pts
Unlocked
🍦 Ice cream trip
60 pts
14 to go
Chores to check
🧸 Tidy up
Today · +2
Confirm
🎵 Music Practice · 🥁 Drums
9
day streak · 🔥 Still alive
46 pts · 4 to Soloist
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Practice
+3 pts
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Listen
+1 pt
🎼
Learn
+3 pts
🌟 Perfect day! +2 bonus3/3
Today's idea · MusicPlay a rock beat: kick on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4.
Every spring, test scores show exactly where your kid is behind. Then nothing connects those numbers to what they do next.
The average K–5 student loses 1–2 months of reading skill over the summer (Cooper et al.)
How it works

Simple for everyone
involved.

One daily loop for kids, the controls for grown-ups — the same on every track.

1

Start a challenge

Pick a track and how long it runs — 12 weeks unless you choose otherwise. Keep it to your own kids, or share a link with friends or a whole class.

Every joining parent sees exactly what's shared, and confirms for their own child.
2

Kids build their streak

One tap per activity. Each tile shows its points, ideas and rank names match the theme they picked — from chess and sports to art, space and fantasy — and doing everything in a day earns a perfect-day bonus. Points climb through ranks, plus a weekly bonus activity.

Forgot to log? Kids can fill in any day from the past week.
3

Parents stay in charge

A PIN-protected parent section. Set your own prizes, confirm chores, and add spring test scores so the reading routine starts where your child actually is.

Cashing in a prize never costs a single point.
Tracks

Six habits.
One game.

Every track runs on the same streak, points and prizes. Only the daily activities change.

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Reading Slide
15 minutes reading, 10 writing, 5 to wrap up. Set from your child's spring scores, if you have them.
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Math Facts
Times-table fluency: a quick drill, a review, and one word-problem challenge a day.
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Music Practice
Practice, listen, learn. Kids pick their instrument — drums, guitar, piano, trombone and more.
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Back to School
Homework started, 20 minutes of practice, bag packed for tomorrow.
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Home Helper
Make the bed, tidy up, help out. You set the chores and the points, and confirm when they're done.
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Mindful Kid
Five calm minutes: breathe, notice something good, check in.
Built for

One challenge,
any group size.

The person who starts a challenge is the same role at three sizes — a parent, an instructor, a teacher.

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Household · 2–6 kids
Summer reading with friends
A mom runs a reading challenge for her kids and two of their friends
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Creator
Picks the track and length, then pastes one link into the group chat.
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Kids
A shared leaderboard with their friends — and company that makes the habit stick.
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Parents
Each family sets its own prizes. They're never shown in the challenge.
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Instructor · 5–15 students
Practice between lessons
A drum teacher runs a Music Practice challenge for her students
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Instructor
Runs a ready-made 12-week program — no curriculum to write. Sees who's practicing.
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Students
Practice, listen and learn each day, with tips for their own instrument.
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Parents
Practice happens without nagging, because the streak is on the line.
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Classroom · 20–30 kids
Class vs. class
A 3rd-grade teacher takes on the class next door
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Teachers
Each teacher adds their own class as a team and shares their class's link.
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Students
Teams rank by average points per kid, so class size never decides the winner.
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Parents
A teacher invites; only a parent can join their own child.
Safe by design

Made for kids under 13,
and their parents.

Kids don't have accounts — they're profiles under a parent's. And everything they see was written by a person.

✍️

Human-written, no AI

Every routine, idea and weekly bonus comes from lists people wrote and reviewed. Nothing your kid sees is generated, and their data never goes to an AI company.

🙂

First name and a score

That's all a challenge ever shows: a first name, an avatar and points for that track. Never a last name, photo or location.

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Only you can join your kid

A friend or teacher can invite. Only a child's own parent can say yes — one kid at a time — and leave in one tap.

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Scores stay in the family

Test scores live in the PIN-protected parent section. Never shown to your kid or anyone in a challenge, and you can delete them any time.

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Optional for Reading: turn on a fall estimate to see roughly where your child's fall MAP Reading score lands if they keep this pace — shown as a range, for parents only.
An estimate based on activity pace — not a test result. Off until you turn it on.
The proof

Built by a parent.
Tested on a real kid.

Not a concept. A working app, 6 enrolled families, and a real result: Declan's reading went up over the summer, not down.

+14
Points gained on Declan's MAP Reading score, spring to fall
3 days
To build v1 — solo, with Claude as co-pilot
6
Families enrolled via organic word-of-mouth
6
Tracks live — up from one reading track

Declan's story

Declan's mom, Kate, came up with the idea and built this app over a long weekend for her 4th-grade son, who wasn't reading voluntarily. Four weeks later, Declan was opening the app on his own, logging books, and sitting at Knight rank on the leaderboard.

The bet was simple: his reading wouldn't slide backwards over the summer. His fall MAP retest says it didn't — his reading score went up 14 points. We promised to publish the result either way.

Read how it was built →
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Behavior loop works

A kid who wasn't reading voluntarily opens the app on his own and picks up books.

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Build economics work

A parent + AI shipped a multi-family real-time app in 3 days for $0.

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Acquisition story works

"A parent vibe-coded this for her kid" drives organic sharing among other parents.

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No summer slide — for Declan

His MAP Reading score went up 14 points from spring to fall. One kid, one summer — so next we're testing it with more families.

Who it's for

If you're trying to build
a habit in a kid, this is for you.

👩‍👧
Parents
Build several habits at once without buying several apps — one routine per track, all in one place.
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Teachers
Run a class challenge, or take on another class. Every family still decides for its own child.
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Instructors & coaches
Piano teachers, drum instructors, tutors. Run a practice challenge so the work happens between sessions.
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Friends & groups
Neighbors, cousins, summer programs. Share one link and let a little friendly competition do the rest.

Ready to build the streak
your kid won't break?

Beat the Slide is in early access and free to try. Sign in, add your kid, and pick a track in a couple of minutes.

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