About — Parent Group Activities

Why this exists

Vancouver parents kept telling the same story: "I'm in four WhatsApp groups, two Facebook groups, and a Signal thread. 247 unread messages. None of them have a calendar. I still don't know if the playdate is happening." So we built the calendar. And the RSVP. And the chat that doesn't scroll into oblivion. And the bit that finds good kids' activities near you so the organizer doesn't have to Google it every week.

Plan — shared calendar with RSVPs and reminders
Coordinate — chat that stays on-topic because it's scoped to the group
Remember — post-event ratings so your group keeps finding the good stuff
Protect — no strangers, no algorithm, no ads. QR invite only.

Everything else — the public feed, the algorithm, the ads, the "you might also like" dopamine slot machine, the "you might know" suggestions that are never people you want to know — we deliberately don't do. Those were never the point. They are, in fact, the whole problem.

What we actually do with your data (short answer: nothing)

Strangers see nothing. Technically impossible for them to see anything.

Group content (events, chat, members, family photos) is visible only to active members of that group. Server-enforced — not a UI toggle.

Zero ad networks. Zero analytics SDKs that profile you.

Zero third-party ad networks, zero analytics SDKs that profile users. We host our own minimal telemetry on the same server as the app.

Subscription is the only revenue. Your family photos are not a line item.

Subscription revenue is the only revenue. Your family's data is not a product. If we ever want to change this, we'd email every user first and offer a full export & delete.

Magic link only. We can't leak a password we never stored.

Sign-in is via magic link to your email. We never store passwords, so we can never leak them. Sessions use signed JWTs with a 30-day refresh token you can revoke.

The AI never learns your name, your kids' names, or anything you've chatted.

The Claude calls that power activity discovery never receive your name, your kids' names, or your chat content. They get a category and an age range, that's it.

Download everything or delete it all — in one tap, immediately.

One tap in Settings lets you download everything you've put into the app, and another deletes your account and every related row. No "we'll get back to you in 60 days."

How sign-in works

There are no passwords on Parent Group Activities. Here's the full flow:

You enter your email on the sign-in page.
We email you a sign-in link, valid for 15 minutes, one-time use.
You tap the link — your phone (or browser) is signed in for 30 days.
Push notifications & reminders arrive on your phone and at that same email.
To join a group, you either scan its QR poster or accept an admin invite. Same email, no extra password.

It's the same email/account whether you're on the app or the website. One sign-in, all surfaces.

Who's behind it

Parent Group Activities is built by PanBuddha, a tiny independent shop in Vancouver, BC. Same team that builds the MindBodyRitual and LaMirage apps.

Self-funded. No VC, no growth-at-all-costs mandate, no "we need to monetize the data to hit our metrics." The goal is simple: make the tool useful enough that organizers happily pay $2.99 a month, and keep joining free for everyone else forever.

Questions, feedback, ideas? admin@panbuddha.ca. Real humans, < 24-hour reply.

Facebook was built for strangers. We were built for the family you wave at on the school run.