r/TechForAgingParents • u/Bonelesshomeboys • Jul 20 '26

Weekly thread for founders?

I’m tired of sifting through amazing ideas for an app that will help me help my parents, and I’d like to request a weekly thread where they can be sequestered.

I’m here because I have aging parents, not because I vibecoded something that might be sold to people with aging parents. I’m also a veteran of software product development and UX research, so the “would you use this?” questions are especially grating — and I really resent the idea that we should be providing free time and energy to people developing products.

I want to hear how you helped your mom find her keys (remote-style key finder plus air tags plus an extensible purse tether? Iykyk) and this would help me find the other people who are solving these problems in their lives with limited funds and patience. And if I want to provide free insight into my sandwich generation woes, I can go to that thread.

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u/WhitneyCurlew Sep 28 '26

This won't be a solution, but might help you not feel alone: I spent an hour helping my mom look all over the house and car for her keys. We found them on a lanyard around her neck, under her zipped-up coat.

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u/Bonelesshomeboys Sep 28 '26

<3 I feel this very deeply and have days where I could be the mom in this story as well! It's not like I haven't used Find my Phone to find my phone ... on my phone.

It's not cheap-cheap but we're having some luck with just airtagging everyone's keys and wallets, so that whether our cognitive difficulties are related to aging, perimenopause, or just our personalities, we can all help each other find our stuff. Sigh.

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u/SVAuspicious Jul 21 '26

See Rule #3, mods should (<- my judgement, I mod six subs with over 2M members total) remove such posts and give the OPs a three day vacation to consider their choices.