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Life & fun · May 30, 2012

PlaySafe - The safest way to let your kids play on your Android

Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator's winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of "having a different vision in terms of how to move forward." So what has V

PlaySafe - The safest way to let your kids play on your Android launched on May 30, 2012 with 6 votes, #129 of 435 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator's winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of "having a different vision in terms of how to move forward." So what has Vaisman, along with co-founder Ankush Agarwal, now launched instead? Play Safe, an app for Android th

Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator’s winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte ). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of “having a different vision in terms of how to move forward.” So what has Vaisman, along with co-founder Ankush Agarwal, now launched instead? Play Safe , an app for Android that lets kids safely play games on your own smartphone. To be honest, Kyte has the arguably bigger vision. It wants to provide a kid-friendly user interface for kids’ own Android…from techcrunch.com

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