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Denny's Maze
A kids’ app built to be put down
After 13 years building apps that keep people engaged, I made Denny for my son. It’s a quiet maze app where children can work through a puzzle at their own pace, without rewards or animations pushing them to keep playing.
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Hi Product Hunt, I’m Olga. I spent 13 years building apps and thinking about retention, session length, and how to bring people back. Then I became a parent, and those same design decisions started to look different. I’ve felt ashamed handing my son an iPad. Even giving him something to do on a flight made me feel like I was failing as a parent. But an iPad is a tool. It can hold a book, a drawing pad, a puzzle. What matters is what we put on it and how that content is designed. Opening children’s apps, I kept noticing familiar engagement mechanics: flashing rewards, constant animations, sounds celebrating every tap, and another invitation to play the moment an activity ends. Even some apps labelled “calm” seemed determined to keep my child tapping. I wanted something I felt comfortable giving him. An activity he could enjoy at his own pace, without every interaction nudging him to keep going. So I built Denny, a quiet maze app that works offline. Children follow paths, solve puzzles, and move on when they’re ready. There are no streaks, coins, or flashing rewards. I’m used to measuring whether people stay. With Denny, I’m thinking about what makes an app worth using and easy to leave. If you build products, or use them with your kids, I’d love to hear how you think about that.
About Denny's Maze on Product Hunt
“A kids’ app built to be put down”
Denny's Maze was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. After 13 years building apps that keep people engaged, I made Denny for my son. It’s a quiet maze app where children can work through a puzzle at their own pace, without rewards or animations pushing them to keep playing.
On the analytics side, Denny's Maze competes within Kids — topics that collectively have 4.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Denny's Maze performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Denny's Maze?
Denny's Maze was hunted by Olga Vorona. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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