Show HN: I turned my kid's worksheet into a math game in 10 minutes with Claude

Nice job, but it&#x27;s definitely lacking a reward mechanism to get this to qualify even loosely as &quot;edutainment&quot;. Maybe add a particle emitter glitter gun or some kind of flashy CSS animation. You&#x27;d be surprised at how even the smallest things can help keep a child engaged.<p>About a decade ago my little brother was struggling with the multiplication table so I built an education game based off the magic carpet escape sequence in the Sega Genesis game for Aladdin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specularrealms.com&#x2F;alad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specularrealms.com&#x2F;alad</a><p>After a few weeks, he had those tables down cold!

This is awesome.<p>My wife built a matching game[0] for our toddler, because she doesn&#x27;t like the flashy content and addictive nature of the games on the app store (and neither do I!)<p>It&#x27;s very simple, but it&#x27;s exactly what she envisioned.<p>Disclaimer: I work on the vibe code tool she built this with.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddler-matching-game.magicloops.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddler-matching-game.magicloops.app</a>

Done similar to help kids with learning beginner math.<p>Should now be possible to make an app that specializes in making new apps on demand based on simple requirements like these :)<p>As Khan Academy is experimenting with 1:1 tutoring using LLMs... this may be an adjacent space for them to explore: let users generate apps&#x2F;games on a math or science topic of choice, beyond the regular quizzes.

My kids love Duolingo so I just started turning their spelling lists into this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thomaspark.co&#x2F;projects&#x2F;cleolingo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thomaspark.co&#x2F;projects&#x2F;cleolingo&#x2F;</a><p>Without Claude so it took much longer than 10 minutes.

This is so awesome. Personalized software really is coming.

I built this for kids in my family <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bhupal.net&#x2F;alphabees" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bhupal.net&#x2F;alphabees</a><p>It is 95% written by Claude with Cursor free tier. The good part, 5 yrs old want more features like more levels, nice graphics, they basically want all their book in this style but I don&#x27;t have resources to take this further.

I&#x27;ve had similar success vibe coding small, self-contained projects.<p>Where it lacks is wisdom + taste. Not a problem for small greenfield projects. A very real problem for large codebases where it quickly implements silly technical approaches. For example, building an authentication system from scratch for a feature, rather than extending the existing authentication system.

That&#x27;s nice, I create birthday invites in 5 mins now for my kids. An ordeal that used to take hours.<p>The last time I asked Chad Gepeto to make sudoku puzzles though, it went horribly wrong. At least it got my kids to prove that this and that puzzle by AI were broken, which is a net win. Early skepticism against the machine!

You’re gonna teach your kid hockey?