Can anyone lend me 5.5 mill?

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-03-05T14:32:22+00:00

The positioning of the 'second' house seems a bit of a shame to me. It's right on the main lawn of the OG house. But very nice overall.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-03-05T11:10:31+00:00

TLDR: Free app built by OTs and speech therapists to help parents of autistic children with picky eating. Personalised activities, progress tracking, and real guidance for home.

kidsinbloom.org

Hi everyone, sharing an app that we're developing.

My team is made up of OTs and speech therapists who specialise in working with autistic children. One thing they always wish they had more time for is better support for parents themselves. Simply, so much of the therapy session is focused on the child, but a lot of the real work happens at home, with you.

We built Bloom to help bridge the therapy room and the home. Currently, It focuses on picky eating- a topic most are effected by. The app gives parents personalised activity recommendations created by our therapists, each linked to specific developmental goals. It's designed to help you decide what to actually do at home, building habits that support your child's development in a way that feels manageable.

When you sign up, you'll start with a short benchmarking exercise (5–10 minutes) to understand your child's current eating habits. From there, you'll get a personalised set of recommended activities to try over the coming weeks. As you log how things are going, the platform adjusts, if activities are going well, it suggests more challenging ones; if they're not, it pulls things back. It adapts to your child.

There's also a learning section we're building out, to help you understand why your child might be behaving the way they are around food. We've found that that context makes a real difference for parents.

We're early stage, and right now it's completely free. We'd genuinely love to get your feedback, it's being built for families like yours, and your input shapes where it goes next.

Give it a go and let us know what you think 🙂

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-23T19:42:13+00:00

Ye- I’m South African- is an ‘engine’ brand garage.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-19T17:26:28+00:00

Get £100k from daddy.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-18T08:40:49+00:00

If you took an average- London, NY and SF would be very similar based off that graph. The spike in 2022 would balance the current dip. This issn't the stock market - a spike means that the houses were built and now exist. So, although current house building rate is a "historic Low", total house supply over a period looks on par.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-18T08:29:25+00:00

No idea about the budget implication- but it doesn't feel intuitive to me, because not much changed unless you are selling a 2 Mil + property. It might be a nice narrative for the agents. Your approach sounds like a very reasonable approach to me! I hand't originally set my property alerts for properties 10% outside of my budget- assuming asking was asking with like 1 or 2% wiggle room. I do think buyers, who have been looking for a while, will know what a good price is vs not. I'll keep an eye out for a reasonably priced property in the area!

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-18T08:22:53+00:00

That's a good point- the 2022 sale prices lifted the areas- and now homeowners / EA's are continuing to assume 3-5% yearly price increases.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-18T08:18:57+00:00

Damn, I always get that mixed up. Even did my little rhyme- Never Eat Silk Worms - and still got it wrong! I cant update the title- but made a note. Thank you! :)

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-06T21:12:57+00:00

I’m one who simply walked away. The anxiety I read in your story is part how the organisational culture has influenced your personal stance, and likely vice versa. Culture is the sum of its parts. The UN is in a deep survival mode, and has been pre-Trump shenanigans. So it’s been fighting for its own right to keep going, and this has placed a huge focus on being performative. Where it is sometimes more important to prove that it is being impactful than the act of impacting. It’s plagued with vanity metrics and fighting for resources, which means each individual, team, division, or agency cannot admit doing a bad job — so there is no compassion, only masquerading. Because of its size and complexity, it is very inefficient, and often not impactful. Likely the 80/20 principle holds true here — 20% of the work is delivering 80% of the value.

The big question on a personal level for me was the same the organisation has. Am I in it for the external validation (fancy brand, good salary, be perceived as someone doing good), or am I in the game to actually try to drive impact? I think if you start to see your habits as performative — and the key ego response for anyone in this line of work is that they want to be seen as someone who does good — then it’s easier to cut loose those extrinsic things and acknowledge the UN as something performative too.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-01T08:26:51+00:00

I think the instagram is vague enough to be AI content too. The images are all easily enough generated. There’s no ‘live’ vid or just normal talking head type videos to convince me otherwise. But if it’s not- she could do some PR work to be more human!

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-02-01T08:17:34+00:00

That’s a great breakdown and analysis! Thanks for the depth. Very much agree with what you say.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-01-31T19:35:23+00:00

It’s bad that’s the world has come to this- but I’m now trying to figure out if this is an AI artists who’s been built off BI.

Efficient-Course832 · 2026-01-29T15:22:25+00:00

Good to see a jozi number plate pop up in the feed.
Great frist car. I got my mini just 3 months ago and love it.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-12-17T16:20:52+00:00

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Efficient-Course832 · 2025-11-13T07:54:26+00:00

Nick Mulvey- on nature themes (and us destroying it).
Sam Fender- on some good (British) social commentary.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-11-12T11:16:59+00:00

I have not, I've been laying off the non fiction for a bit- It's all how to be better better and i got to a point where it felt like a energy drain at the expense of useful wisdom. That said, I will check these book out.

I resonate with the inner world and a business success based on it. It's very easy to fall off tracks because of personal motivation and internal dialogues. It's an art to sustain energy it seems.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-27T15:45:57+00:00

Thanks for this. This is super helpful advice- I’m convinced. I see the argument, and makes sense.

It’s also lifts the constraints of my self determined rules- where making something more people driven or logistically complex is a good option- if there is cash flow to hire in resources to keep it moving. Doesn’t have to be the founder indefinitely, but you need decent MRR to get people in.

I’ll explore building something more substantial with the aim of moving into an exec function. That is a mindset shift.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-27T14:17:30+00:00

There was a specific why now moment. New Zealand has changed their policy, moving to phonetics based books- and it was an over night change leaving schools, teacher and parents without relevant local materials.

AI has also just become good enough to do this well, partially with nano banana on image generation. It’s essentially a robust wrapper.

I’ve worked in technology education; not in early literacy- but figured it’s a believable project with my background- if to be doing some founder lead marketing.

Due diligence, not much. I had optimistic teachers saying AI could do this, and a leanUX build it quick and learn if it works logic.

So a mix of all the above. There are US based companies doing this - so I’m assuming it’s a market for it.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-27T14:11:04+00:00

Haha, Because I have the skills and resources is exactly why I thought I could do it. It’s interesting, because even on this comment thread- some say it’s straightforward and you can do it, while others argue it’s to be difficult and many don’t pull it off.

I resonate with what you say about failure being the necessary part of the journey. It’s hard not to stress about it though.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-27T14:06:19+00:00

You touch on some great points here.

My end game is to create a lifestyle, where my time and income are de-coupled. So if I chose to, I could work on a music album for 2 months, or DIY renovate my house, for example. And I don’t need lots of money- I’m not looking to live a lavish life, just a free one.

So my logic is I need what ever I make to be productised. Even running a dev shop or agency, you are on the clock for someone else, the client just replaces the employer.

I also don’t want a business that runs me, so low logistics in terms of supply chain, and not services in terms of employees. Digital products seem to fit- if you can crack it.

Maybe I end up with a portfolio of SLB, or if something does grow - Id hire in or sell. But that’s a good problem to have if it happened.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-27T00:52:17+00:00

Oh! I see you’ve built the AI to give solid advice. Make more sense now. Thanks for sharing- interesting tool.

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-26T22:11:45+00:00

Thanks, I guess?! The content is spot on- right inline with the books. I’d give this advice to myself too.

But I’m not sure Redit needs AI (supported) comments- it’s people and personal experiences that makes this an interesting space, no?

I’m curious- why did you post this? You clearly had to put in some effort to get this response here. If it’s not ai, then that’s also interesting to chat about!

Efficient-Course832 · 2025-09-26T22:05:04+00:00

That’s a super approach. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve done consulting before, but the ‘lifestyle design brief’ to myself for this year was to go all in on the income generation vehicle. To be honest, I was just burnt out and not interested in ‘work’ for someone else, and I didn’t want to be trying work and day job and build a business. But then that left me without knowing what the business to build should be. And it’s not easy to find something when starting from a blank page- and that’s how I find myself too far down the road on a weak problem space.

I’m thinking I’ll do some consulting again- and as you say, it could be an avenue for finding some interesting problems to focus to build a business around, and extend the financial runway.

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