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The Monsters by Tinybop

Tinybop Inc. · Education

Turn shadows on the wall into wild and wooly creatures

$2.99 · In-app purchases

PRICE
$2.99
In-app purchases
BUSINESS MODEL
Paid
No overall Grossing estimate available
RATING
4.5
62 ratings · Top 15%

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Goal: Send a clear invoice after finishing a job.

  • Add a client, line items, a due date, and payment instructions.
  • Preview the total before exporting a PDF.
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Invoice editor: Client at the top, editable line items in the middle, total and preview action at the bottom.

States: Empty draft, validation errors beside each field, exporting, and a retry action that preserves the draft.

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Hypothesis: Contractors need faster repeat invoices more than more templates.

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Hypothesis 1

Include more monsters and activities to appeal to a broader audience.

Assumption to check: Limited content variety may lead to reduced engagement.

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Hypothesis 2

Implement a more comprehensive progress tracking system.

Assumption to check: Difficulty in tracking progress across multiple activities.

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Hypothesis 3

Clearly communicate free vs. paid content.

Assumption to check: In-app purchases may confuse users about what is included for free.

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Hypothesis 4

Add social sharing features to enhance user interaction.

Assumption to check: Lack of social features to encourage sharing and interaction.

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App Store description

Turn shadows on the wall into wild and wooly creatures. Give them googly eyes, tiny arms, too many horns, spotted tails, or sparkly fur — any assortment of fantastical features that you like. Bring your monsters to life! Make them happy or sad, nervous or bad, lovely or mad. Feed them radioactive snacks and make them sing and dance. Take a monster selfie and decorate with stickers. Make the monsters of your dreams! “Weird, but in a good way” — Geeks with Juniors "A wonderful aesthetic experience" — Warren Buckleitner, Children's Technology Review The Monsters is the third app in Tinybop’s Digital Toys, a series of open-ended building apps that let kids ages 4+ create, play with, and collect whatever they can imagine. The second is The Everything Machine, an App Store Editors’ Choice and Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice. The first, The Robot Factory, is a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner and the iPad App of the Year. FEATURES + Make monsters! Turn shadows into the creatures of your dreams...or nightmares. Millions of monsters are possible. + Give your monsters lots of arms and legs. Stretch or shrink their limbs as you like. + Add all kinds of eyes, mouths, and horns to your monsters. Give them scales or fur, feathers or hair. + Paint your monster with different colors, sparkles, spots, scales, and more! + Make happy, sad, scared, or mad monsters. What will yours be like? + Explore different rooms. In the closet, turn shadows into monsters. Keep and play with all your creations in a haunted hall. + Pop into the photo booth and take selfies with your monsters. + Have a monster battle! + Make your monsters speak. Explore the sound library or record your own monster sounds. + Intuitive, safe, and kid-friendly design. + Multi-user system: each child can create and save their own monsters. + Entertaining for kids and adults alike. + No in-app purchases or 3rd party advertising. + Original artwork by Tianhua Mao. + Original sound design. Privacy Policy We take your and your child’s privacy seriously. While none of our apps collect personally identifiable information, Monsters does not collect any analytics data, including usage data. We do not include third-party advertising or have in-app purchases in this app. If the camera, microphone, and other services are used in an app, your information is not collected or distributed outside of your device. The images are not transmitted to us, Tinybop has no access to them. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. About Tinybop is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow. We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop See us: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! Reach out: [email protected]. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop.

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Set boundaries

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