Small apps for specific problems.

Lab Two Minds is an independent software studio. We look for problems that a particular group of people has and that bigger companies tend to skip. We build a small working version, put it in front of those people, and keep it only if they use it.

Now: Hopsa, in testing on iPhone.

Work

Hopsa

Play ideas for families, away from the screen

Parents of kids aged 3 to 12 often know they want to play, but can't think of what to do at 5 pm on a rainy Tuesday. Hopsa answers that. Pick the situation you're in (stuck indoors, a long car ride, ten minutes before dinner, too tired to get off the couch) and it suggests a game with short steps and a list of what you need. Then you put the phone away.

Status: In testing on iPhone, not in the App Store yet. Android comes after Google Play approves our developer account.
Contents: 300 activities, each with short steps and a list of what you need
Languages: English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Price: Free to use. An optional Hopsa Plus subscription unlocks every activity.
Ads: None. No ad tracking.

Hopsa website

Hopsa home screen with today's play idea, Flight to a Faraway Country — Today's idea

List of activities for the situation From the couch — Ideas for a situation

Step 1 of 6 of the Baking Soda Volcano activity — One step at a time

Hopsa is our first product. Other ideas are being tested and will show up here only if they turn into something real.

How we choose

Before an idea gets any build time, it has to pass a short filter.

Is it a real problem that a specific group of people has, and not just a nice feature?
Can a small product solve it honestly, without promising more than it can do?
Will the product fit into people's lives, instead of pulling them into a screen for its own numbers?

Ideas that pass get built as a small, finished product and tested with real people for a month. The ones people come back to and pay for stay and grow. Most ideas stop at that test, which is the point.

About

Two minds: the people who build a product and the people who live with it.

We judge our work by what the second group thinks. In practice that means a product has to earn its place: if it stops being useful to the people it was built for, we stop working on it instead of adding features to keep it alive.

Products are paid for directly, by the people who use them. No ads, no selling data.

Contact

Questions, feedback, a bug, or a problem you think is worth solving.

hello@labtwominds.com

We read every message. For help with Hopsa, write to support@labtwominds.com.