I do B2B hardware and software projects. I hate sales and advertising but I will post something I’m working on about once a week on my personal LinkedIn. It’s amazing how many customers reference that stuff when I have my first meeting.

I really wish it was MediaWyrm. I want something where I can share, rate, and track books, movies, tv shows, podcasts, etc

I agree.

Also check out Greenlight which has a built in parents interest feature.

Yeah. That would be a pain

Visible is pretty great. I don’t really have any issues with it. I pay $25/month. Spouse has upgraded Visible plan of $45/mo and an Apple Watch $5/mo. My 3 kids have Tello $9 plans which gives the unlimited text/talk and 500MB of data. That’s just enough to track their locations, Otherwise they tether for free on our phones. Everyone has an iPhone.

25+45+5+3x9 = $102 all in. No additional fees or taxes.

I use Visible and Tello for phone lines. Have 5 iPhones and pay less than $100/mo.

Buy store brands. A lot of times store brand is cheaper than name brand in bulk at Sam’s/costco.

Buy reliable used cars in cash and learn how to do some auto maintenance yourself.

There are high end thrift stores where you can find barely used quality clothes. Rich people often where them once or twice and then get rid of them.

Date nights in the middle of the week. Lots of places have specials.

Slickdeals.net

I use YNAB which I guess is technically zero based budgeting but we refer to the categories as envelopes. In my mind I’m doing the same thing as when I had cash in envelopes I just don’t have to deal with cash. I group my categories by the 50/30/20.

So I guess 4 with a bit of 1 and 3?

I think that’s it. His vision is to try and make a WeChat competitor. As much as I hate it, I fear that if he can string along the investors for long enough he could actually maybe make it successful if he adds everything else to it.

But the Fediverse is growing too which is better. Let Musk and Zuck have their dick measuring competition and let’s build something better over here!

I’ve been using YNAB. I like the product but it is quite expensive. I’ve looked at Buckets as an alternative and now looking Actual Budget. My YNAB just renewed so I’ll be waiting a year before I change.

Gotcha. I’m thinking I might be able to get a GC to do the outside and white box on the inside. I can finish it from there.

More than likely. Because it means I’m not moving. I’d pay 20k in realtor fee easily. But my questions were less about the value and more about the experience. Did you do any of it yourself or use a GC?

Good points.

I was hoping to hear some anecdotes of similar projects.

Yup. Not to mention we have a Roku, iPhone, Chromebook, and Switch we have to manage, with three kids profiles on each.

Another thing, I have a 13 year old and a lot of apps (like YouTube) have little kid and adult.

When I was a kid and had cable there were lots of content edited for mass consumption. You could turn on TBS and watch an R movie edited down to somewhere between PG and PG-13. No one is editing down all this content now.

I have three kids. I am very present. I work from home and I’m constantly monitoring what they are using . Parental controls are a nightmare.

There are apps that are rated as ages 4+ but they have chat features.

There are apps you’ve ok’d them to use but requires the parents PIN every time they open it.

Screen limits randomly reset themselves. A lot of times that means you have allowed something that limit blocked and now you have to ok it again.

Imagine being out with three friends and you need to know everything they are doing on their phone and have to enter a password on it every 15 min.