Hi, I'm Bryant.P

My school runs from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade on the same campus. Every day, in the cafeteria, in the hallways, in the pickup line after school, I see the younger kids — most of them 5 to 10 years old, right at the age when teachers start asking them to turn in assignments by keyboard.

One afternoon I walked past the elementary computer lab and saw a few first graders using an old typing website. Ads everywhere. A signup popup blocking the screen. The whole interface looked like it had not been touched in more than a decade. One girl mistyped a few keys, gave up, and turned her chair to go play something else.

I went home and looked for myself. Almost every "free typing game for kids" on the internet was at about that level. Either it forced a child to create an account, or it buried the games in advertisements, or it was so badly designed that a six-year-old could not use it without an adult. Almost none of them seemed to treat the children as the design target rather than as traffic.

This should be done better. And I realized — this is not something I need to grow up first and then do. This is something I can do right now, for the kids around me.

After I had an early version of the site, I showed it to kids I know around me — my classmates' younger siblings, cousins, children of teachers I know. I gave no hints. I just sat next to them and watched where they clicked, where they got stuck, when they laughed, when they frowned. Every one of those sessions changed something on the site. Some designs I thought were clever turned out to be impossible for a seven-year-old to understand. Some animations I thought were unremarkable turned out to be the parts they played the longest.

This tool was tested one small child at a time. It was not thought up by me alone at a computer.

The point of this site is not how large it can grow. The point is whether, during the years I can work on it, it actually helps the kids around me.

Teachers and parents of younger students at my own school can already recommend this site to their students and their children today — fully free, no advertising, no sign-up. Even if the result is just one more child who would otherwise be struggling through a screen full of ads getting to quietly practice typing instead, that by itself is enough reason for me to keep going.

If the kids around me find this useful, and from there kids in other places end up using it as well — that is a bonus. But the core purpose is only one thing: to do something useful for the real children in my life.

Let me be clear about one thing. This is not a "14-year-old independent developer builds everything alone" story. My family helps me a lot — with technical decisions, with reviewing code, with telling me when an idea is a middle schooler's daydream and when it is something that can actually work. But the games are designed by me, the writing is done by me, and every decision that has to pass through the question above is made by me.