r/SideProject • u/monoloni • 6h ago
I built a little interactive globe for my two boys. Somehow, they became my entire dev team.
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I'm just a dad with two curious boys, aged 9 and 6, and absolutely no coding background.
A little while ago, I decided to try vibe coding using Claude Code Opus 5.5. Partly to learn something new, but mostly because I wanted to make my kids' screen time a bit more meaningful.
So I started building an interactive 3D globe where they could explore the world, discover animals, countries, landmarks, and learn a few things along the way.
Honestly, I thought I'd be lucky if they played with it for 15 minutes.
Turns out, I underestimated them.
They started exploring everything, asking questions, and then the feature requests came.
"Dad, why isn't this in the game?"
"Can you make it do this?"
"This would be SO much better if..."
So now, my two boys are basically the lead testers, and I've been adding features and fixing things based on their feedback almost every day.
It's still very much a work in progress. Plenty of bugs, missing features, and things I want to improve.
But watching them genuinely enjoy exploring the world, rather than just mindlessly staring at a screen, has been pretty rewarding.
And it got me thinking. If my kids enjoy it this much, maybe other kids would too.
So I decided to share it with everyone.
It's called My Earth Toy, and it's completely free.
You can try it without an account, or sign up for the full experience.
If you have curious little ones (physically or internally), I'd love for you to try it together. Please share your feedback; I'd appreciate hearing it.
Thank you for checking it out!