My son was 5 and learning to read.
He loved stories. But the apps we tried were either glorified flashcard drills or passive video players. Nothing felt like reading.
I wanted something where he was part of the story. Where the words he touched became the story he read.
So I built the simplest thing I could imagine.
Five bubbles. Five words. One story.
He popped the bubbles. A story appeared with his words inside it. He tapped a word he didn't know and heard it spoken aloud.
He read the whole thing himself.
No narration doing it for him.
No quizzes testing him.
Just a story that felt like his.
The next morning he asked if he could pop more bubbles.
That's when I knew this was worth building.