A small experiment (and a gentle invitation)

Why I built Pebble - and how I’m testing whether it’s genuinely useful

For quite a while now, I’ve been sitting with a question that I know many home-educating parents have to consider:

How do I keep meaningful records without it becoming another thing to worry about?

Not perfect records. Not extensive records.
Just… enough. Clear. There when they’re needed.

That question is what led me to create Pebble.

Pebble is a very simple platform for home-educating parents to log learning as it happens and, if needed, download a clear record later on. It’s not a curriculum, not a planning system and not a productivity tool. It’s intentionally minimal.

The aim isn’t to do more - it’s to reduce that low-level background noise of “Should I be keeping track of this better?”

Pebble is still early. It’s not polished or feature-heavy. But it is already useful, and that’s what I want to test next. I’m running a small experiment.

Rather than gathering opinions or running surveys, I’m opening Pebble quietly to a small number of people and asking a very simple question:

Is this useful enough to pay for?

Pebble is paid (with a 14 day free trial) not because it’s fancy, but because payment is the clearest signal that something genuinely helps. Early access is priced low and it supports me to keep developing it slowly when I can.

If you’re a home-educating parent and this sounds like something that might ease a bit of mental load, you’re very welcome to take a look and let me know what you think.

There’s no pressure and no expectation that it’s for everyone.

Whatever happens, I’ll be learning from this - and I appreciate you being part of that process, simply by reading this post.

Best wishes,

Louise.