Then I watched 13 parents go through usability testing.
The surprising part?
Most of them described the exact problem I built ACTIQO to solve.
Not scheduling.
Not calendars.
Not tracking.
Coordination.
Things like:
• remembering who has pickup
• making sure equipment is packed
• coordinating schedule changes
• figuring out when to leave
• communicating across multiple adults
• keeping everything in their head
One parent basically described family life as logistics management.
That changed how I’m thinking about the product.
Instead of positioning ACTIQO as a family activity tracker, we’re leaning much harder into a different idea:
“The activity lasts an hour. The coordination lasts all week.”
The UX still needs work.
But the testing made me realize something important:
The problem wasn’t that parents didn’t have the pain.
The problem was that I wasn’t making the value obvious enough.
Curious for other founders:
What’s the biggest thing user testing taught you that had nothing to do with UX?