We built this at 19, raised money, shipped it to 100+ countries. Then life happened.

I was diagnosed with dyspraxia at 11. It took 9 years for anyone to figure out what was going on. Nine years of not understanding why my body wouldn't do what other kids' bodies did without thinking. Why catching a ball felt impossible. Why handwriting was a fight every single day.

That gap. The years between "something feels off" and "here's what it actually is." That's what I kept coming back to. Somebody should have caught it sooner. Not to cure it. Just to name it. Just to give my parents and my teachers a way to understand what they were seeing.

At 18, I built the first version of MyChild App. At 19, Aafreen and I dropped out of college to go full-time. The idea was never to replace doctors. It was to give parents a way to notice patterns early enough that the 9-year gap I lived through stops happening to other kids.

The startup is done. I'm not trying to raise another round or build another company around this. But the 129 questions we wrote, the evidence weights, the scoring logic, the age-band calibrations. That's real work. Years of it. And it shouldn't sit in a dead repo.

Developmental screening shouldn't be locked behind expensive licenses. The tools that actually work (ASQ-3, M-CHAT-R/F) cost real money, which means the parents who need them most often can't access them. Open-sourcing the engine means any developer can put this in a clinic, a school, or a parent's phone.

I'm betting that if the code is good and the methodology is transparent, clinicians will validate it, researchers will study it, and translators will adapt the question bank for kids who don't speak English. One developer, one weekend. That's the barrier now.