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I'm Martin Drashkov, Co-Founder of Kytephone, and we make an app that turns
any android phone into a safe kids phone with full parental controls.
My Co-Founders and I...had a different company, which was aimed at a
different industry, and we found ourselves
uh... with a great team,
lots of experience and lots of talent but no idea. The initial success of the other
company led us to be accepted into Y Combinator, which is a very prestigious
uh... startup incubator in Silicon Valley.
While there,
we wanted to focus on a real problem that people have.
Until now, all kids' phones have been essentially these really stupid pieces
of
plastic,
that nobody has been buying and they've all failed miserably.
As we were brainstorming different ideas, we realize that kids today
are caught in a
another world
of technology.
They grow up with the latest and greatest smartphones playing with their
parents' phones, but when it comes time for them to get their first phone, they
have to use old technology because parents simply don't feel comfortable giving
them a smartphone.
When we initially thought of the idea, it suddenly clicked because
uh... you know there was a problem we were already dealing with ... you know ...I have to
go home every
uh... every sunday to have dinner with my family and I would always have to
surrender my phone to my nephew who use'd to love playing games on it.
So in response to that we created Kytephone it's an Android app that
turns any android phone into a kids phone.
And then we can connect that phone to the parents so that they have full
control
over the phone if they needed.
Once it's activated
it turns the phone into a safe kids phone so that kids can only play games
and call people their parents allow.
At the same time using the web they're smart phones or any tablet
their parents can always see the phones location
and what their child has been doing on the phone.