Really glad everyone's enjoying this!<p>If anyone does use it with their kids:<p>a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: <a href="https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin" rel="nofollow">https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin</a><p>b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me at the bottom of the same page. Actually this goes for adults' drawings too because a few people have sent me theirs and they're hilarious
Neat idea!<p>This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.<p>Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.<p>I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.<p>When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.<p>Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
Oh god, I just put in a made up claim for a tooth lost in Timbuktooth, just to test the system and then I saw this...<p><pre><code> Knowingly making a false claim is a criminal offence under Section 17B(2) of the Teeth Finance & Renewal Act (1978) and you may be prosecuted, jailed, or blasted into space.
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What do I do? What do I do?
I’m confused. Traditionally, the Tooth Fairy pays for baby teeth, but the form shows numbering for permanent teeth.<p>Should there perhaps be a way to indicate the type of tooth and a chart showing numbering for baby teeth?
This is very cool.<p>My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money.<p>My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p
Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain.<p>[1] <a href="https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/" rel="nofollow">https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/</a>
Suggestion: change the 'missing teeth' form line to include an ordinal count or something. I was surprised to learn when filing my form that I had "Missing teeth: 30"!
Not fooled! The site is too fast and didn't require 16 factor auth to get started. It also didn't ask me for 5 different government identifiers. Nice try tho.
I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on.<p>Perfect.
Very creative and well executed.<p>When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(<p>But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)<p>So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist
I made this, thanks for sharing it!<p>Backstory is here: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk222" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2...</a><p>...and here: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p</a><p>tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service<p>Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:
One day short of April's fools!<p>Or is it a timezone thing (The sun doesn't set over English empire, so no point waiting for tomorrow)?<p>Or, is this a real Government website and I am just being cynical?
Looks super cute, but doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin apparently only blocking CF Insights (clicking the big green button does nothing).