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I built a reading game for my son. It's called Dino Words.
He's four, and he's obsessed with dinosaurs. He's also just starting to read. So I made him something where those two things become the same thing.
You see a picture. You say the word out loud. A dinosaur is chasing you, and your voice is the only thing keeping it back. Say it right and it falls behind.
Get stuck and it creeps closer.
Teaching language is usually taught with drills and flashcards, things kids endure. But my son doesn't endure this. He doesn't know he's learning at all.
He thinks he's outrunning a dinosaur, and somewhere in the running, the words are becoming his.
The whole thing is built around what he already loves, so the learning never feels like learning. A gentle voice teaches each word first, then it's his turn to remember it alone. And because every child is different, anyone can paste in their own words, in any language, and watch them become a level.
I built it in Figma Make with help from Figma and assets from GPT, Seedance etc. What I love about it is that it let me spend my time on how this should feel for a four-year-old, not on how to ship it.
Built for your son, powered by love — this is what Building with Purpose actually looks like. 'He thinks he's outrunning a dinosaur' — that line got me.
This is absolutely fantastic and so fun!
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