We’re a small team that’s been working in K-12 education for a while. We’ve built products, watched a lot of edtech come and go, and eventually decided to start building things ourselves.
We’re also parents. That part matters.
Why we started this
There’s a pattern we kept noticing. Parents want to be involved in their kids’ learning. They really do. But somehow it doesn’t happen as much as they’d like. Life is busy. Homework is stressful. The default becomes: kid does their thing, parent does their thing, everyone’s in the same house but not really connecting.
Meanwhile, the simple stuff slips. Math facts that need repetition. Vocabulary that builds over time. Conversations that go deeper than “how was school?” “fine.”
We kept thinking: this shouldn’t be so hard.
What we’re building
FlipBridge sends parents a text every day with something to do with their kid. Takes about five minutes. Math, reading, conversation starters, life skills. The parent is the teacher, not an app.
44 is for developers who need voice recording in their apps. We kept reimplementing audio capture for our own projects and got tired of it. So we built drop-in web components that handle the hard parts.
What’s next
We’ll share what we’re learning as we go. Things that work, things that don’t, stuff we’re thinking about.
If any of this sounds interesting, we’d like to hear from you.