2018 to 2019 · San Francisco, CA

Grandy

Founder and product engineer

A consumer product for strengthening the bond between grandparents and grandchildren through simple communication, games, reminders, and support.

Family graph

Software with a human edge: family contact, memory, and senior-friendly onboarding.

Image: Pr.kavitha24, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Product

Family

Audience

Seniors

Model

Concierge

Work breakdown

Designed around the social reality that kids, parents, and grandparents need different interaction patterns.

Combined messaging, video calls, scheduling, online games, family interviews, rewards, and memory aids.

Paired software with onboarding and phone support so seniors were not left to self-serve a new product alone.

Product promise

The public copy in local archives emphasized gamification for kids and simplicity for grandparents.

Local repositories include website, API, admin, mobile, and API-description projects with substantial JC-authored git history.

The product model included onboarding, family calendars, care contacts, visits, messages, and calls.

Evidence notes

These are provenance cues for future polish. They keep the page specific without pretending every private archive is public proof.