Daily Spark · The Skill Den
Daily Spark: a ten-minute life-skills game your family plays together
The first game in The Skill Den. You set it up once, and a fresh one lands every morning.
Daily Spark is the first game in The Skill Den, the daily life-skills game I built for my own two kids and then packaged for other families. You set it up once, and from there a fresh ten-minute game arrives on its own each morning, one real skill at a time, played together.
The ten minutes we keep losing
Screens are the easy thing to blame. The real problem is the morning itself. It is short and tired, so handing over the phone is the simplest way to keep the last ten minutes calm. We have tried it the other way. Banning the phone turns into a daily fight. An activity box arrives, gets used twice, and then lives under the bed. The after-school class is good while it runs and then it ends. None of it survives a real Tuesday.
A better ten minutes
So we made the opposite of a babysitter. One short game, played together, that trains a real skill and fits the ten minutes a morning can actually spare. It is small enough to survive a tired Tuesday, and good enough that your kid asks for it before you do.
How Daily Spark works
You set it up once, in about five minutes if your AI does it for you, or about thirty by hand. The first game lands in your family chat the same day, during your test run, and from the next morning it arrives by itself. Each morning an AI game master writes a brand new game, one skill at a time, so it never runs dry. Then you play it together, parent and child, anywhere ten minutes exists. The parent leads and gently steers the wild answers back when they run off. Your child rates every game, so the ones they love come back in new forms and the flops never return. It asks almost nothing of your morning except the ten minutes that matter.
What you get
What lands in your hands is a simple setup guide and the ready-made game prompt that runs the whole thing, and it adapts to your own kids as you go. Two extras come with it. An AI setup prompt that works as your five-minute concierge and does the setup for you, and a short guide of twenty questions for the moments your kid gets stuck and you want the right thing to say.
What you need
I will tell you the requirements before you pay, because that is only fair. You need a paid Claude plan and a computer that is on when the game sends each morning. That is the whole list.
What it costs
Daily Spark is a one-time purchase, not a subscription that bills you every month. One month of an activity box, or a single hour of a kids' class, costs more than this and ends when it ends. Daily Spark plays every morning for years.
If you get stuck, we will get you unstuck
If you cannot get it running, write to us and my team will set it up with you. The one thing I am not willing to let happen is for you to buy this and end up stuck on the setup.
What a few weeks of this looks like
Picture a morning a little way in. The game lands, and your kid grabs it before you do. A small question turns into ten real minutes of thinking on the drive. None of it shows up on a school report, and all of it is the stuff a life actually runs on.
Who it is for
Daily Spark fits school-age kids, and you tune the questions to your own child, younger or older. It is parent-led and played together, because the ten shared minutes are the point. If you are looking for one more app to hand your child so the house goes quiet for half an hour, this is the opposite of that.
The questions parents ask me first
Do my kids play it alone?
No. It is parent-led and played together, because that is where the bonding lives. The magic is in the ten minutes you spend with them, not in the screen.
How long does setup take?
About five minutes if your AI does it for you, or about thirty by hand. After that it runs on its own.
What do I actually need?
A paid Claude plan and a computer that is on when the game sends. Nothing else.
What ages is it for?
It fits school-age kids, and you tune the questions to your own child.
Is this just more screen time?
No. The screen sends the game, and the ten minutes happen between you and your child, often in the car or over breakfast.
What if we miss a morning?
Nothing breaks. The next game arrives the next day and you pick it back up. The habit is forgiving by design.
Can I get it in another language?
The game adapts to your family, and more languages are on the way. Message us and we will tell you what is ready now.
Get Daily Spark
Daily Spark is one setup away. Get it below, run your test today, and from the next morning the games arrive on their own.