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It’s only been out for two weeks. You do get reminders that you are going to miss this weeks digest or that others have submitted etc. but your idea is great!

I’m also working on Dearest. https://dearest.co

Each week, everyone emails in a few photos and a sentence or two, and Dearest sends the group a private Sunday digest with everyone’s updates. The catch is, you only receive the digest if you contribute that week.

It is meant for families, old friends, grandparents, siblings, or any small group that wants to stay close without another app or endless notifications.

It’s my way to be social and know what’s going on in my friends lives without social media.

So far I only have my friends using it but I love it.

I’m working on https://creditcardchecklist.com It lets you keep track of your credit cards and which perks you have used and when the annual fee is going to hit. I often forget to use up the perk before it expires. You don’t even need an account buts you get notified if you make one. Also it’s free!

I also am working on https://trypixie.com - a way to employee your kids legally. It gets money into their Roth and saves you taxable income all while teaching them about working.

I thought the switch had a browser for a little bit. Am I mistaken?

I miss when social media was mostly about my friends’ lives. It actually helped us stay in touch.

So much of social media now feels built around whatever is trending that week, not the relationships you actually want to keep up with.

That’s why I’m building Dearest (https://dearest.co) : a private, email-based Sunday photo digest for families and friends. Everyone sends a photo and a short update by Saturday night, and contributors get the group’s digest on Sunday morning. Hopefully this keeps us social and in touch.

I love it. As a physician, I see so many cases of elderly patients who have fallen and not been found for hours if not days.

In elder care, I am building https://statphone.com - one emergency number that rings multiple family members simultaneously and breaks through DND. Would love to chat/collaborate.

I have https://amithpatel.com. It needs some updating.

Im building https://trypixie.com to legally employ my 7 year old child, save on taxes and contribute to her Roth IRA.

I also built https://statphone.com - One emergency number that rings your whole family and breaks through DND.

I’m afraid to turn on Do Not Disturb.

I have young kids and elderly parents. Very much in the sandwich generation.

When I’m in the OR or busy and an unknown number comes in, I have no idea. Is this my kid’s school? My dad’s doctor? Something urgent? Or just spam?

So my wife and I built StatPhone (https://statphone.com).

It gives you dedicated phone numbers you can share with the people and places that may need to reach you urgently. When someone calls one, it can ring multiple people at once, break through Do Not Disturb, and if no one answers, escalate to others.

For example, we give one to our kid’s school. It rings both of us at the same time so someone alway picks up.

Or we can give one to my dad’s doctor. It rings me and my sister first, and if we do not pick up, it rolls to my wife and brother in law.

No matter what number they call from, it shows up clearly as something like “Dad Emergency” or “Kids School” on our phones.

If no one answers, it uses its own voicemail, transcribes it, and sends it to everyone. We can still see who actually called via text or the dashboard.

At first we built it for ourselves, but figured it might be useful to other families too.

PS- recently someone brought to our attention that this could be useful for patients on transplant list. This will be worthwhile if we even help one transplant patient!

Will this allow iPad profiles? I think that’s a feature in edu? Would be a game changer.

I actually don't know if Google Voice has that capability unless you hack it by having each phone logged into the same account.

The biggest benefit for me with StatPhone is the incoming callerID is the StatPhone number. So even if the kid's school is calling from a random number, on your phone it shows the StatPhone number and you know its a call pertains to your child.

Also grouped escalation, so if my father calls in an emergency, the kids get called first and then the in laws and our uncle.

The economics don’t work for StatPhone either but I figured if it has value, I can find other ways to make money or bring down costs.

Hi!

If the first group doesn't pick up, it starts calling the second group, but first group continues to ring.

If the caller hangs up, all ringing is stopped.

The cool thing is if it encounters the native phone's voicemail, it hangs up and continues to ring so doesn't think it was a picked up call.

We do have our own voicemail that will eventually answer (user defined timing), which then transcribes and sends the voicemail+transcription to all the group members.

Sure!

Unfortunately if a spammer called the StatPhone number, it would dial everyone. I thought about blocking or automatically categorizing but then you may miss an important call from an unknown number.

Most spammers are actually operating off of known lists, usually made off of some data leak.

I haven’t encountered that issue yet. I don’t have a great solution for that case.

I did and a few CPAs. Surprisingly my customers have been CPAs buying to offer to their clients.

Pixie is more like quickbooks or any other record keeping software. We don’t employ the children, their parents do. And as long as the kids are doing legitimate work, it’s fair and actually the irs has a page on it. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Nope. Just iterated slowly. Started by looking templates I liked on dribbble.

Im building https://trypixie.com to legally employ my 7 year old child, save on taxes and contribute to her Roth IRA.

Im also building https://www.keepfiled.com, a microsaas to save emails (or email attachments) to google drive

I almost forgot, I also built https://statphone.com - One emergency number that rings your whole family and breaks through DND.

I love building. I built all these for myself. unfortunately I suck at marketing so I barely have customers.

Hi Bret!

Thank you for kind words. Really appreciate this. You’re exactly who I had in mind.

On the subscription concern, totally fair. Everything in Pixie is exportable, so you always have your documentation. The underlying rule is longstanding. Pixie just helps systematize compliance. I’m building it assuming families will use it for 10+ years, so durability matters.

Great point on task based work. I can build that in if there’s demand. It makes a lot of sense for kid jobs.

On expat eligibility, I’ll look into it more closely. The key requirement is US taxable earned income, but living abroad can add complexity.

Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback.

Amit

Amithpatel.com

how do you get customers?

I love working with my kids. They help out, feel accomplished, and its bonding time.

That’s the challenge. Educating consumers.

It’s completely legal and even listed by IRS. [0]

It’s important to be compliant and do it in an easy to use manner.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

No limit but for staying under them paying tax it’s the standard deduction (15k). And you can only contribute $7500 (2026) to their Roth.

A reasonable amount depends on their age but somewhere between 7500-15000 is a good amount and maximizes benefits.

I’ve created Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids work. For families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth.

I’m a physician with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. I saved 5k this year on my own taxes by employing my kids and it has funded their Roth.

Soon after launching, I crossed the $500/month mark.

Link:https://trypixie.com

https://trypixie.com

I’ve been working on Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids for real work; for families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth.

I’m actually an anesthesiologist with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. It's been a fun journey!

I love damninteresting. Thanks for keeping it going for the last two decades.

The link even has the source being ChatGPT - it hallucinated!

Look at the url source. Ifs ChatGPT generated hallucination

Anyone read the source and find the 98% accuracy stat? The source link has a UTM source of ChatGPT. Could it be a hallucination?

I often wonder if human intelligence is essentially just predicting words and phrases in a cohesive manner. Once the context size becomes large enough to encompass all a person history, predicting becomes indistinguishable from thinking.