My kid is still too young for YT and I’m not sure what age group you’re targeting but there’s a huge mass of people that do not like YT for the early years. And

My kid is still too young for YT and I’m not sure what age group you’re targeting but there’s a huge mass of people that do not like YT for the early years. And try to avoid it for as long as possible. I think this is a niche to tap into if you are interested in monetizing this as a better experience for these types of parents. This could be the toddler to 10+ just whenever parent decides to allow it but wants to do it in a controlled way. I don’t know if I’m in the minority, because I’m kind of in a bubble (fancy private school environment), but a lot of the other parents I know are YT-free homes and even iPad free but that’s at age 6 right now. I’m hoping to stay away from it for at least a few more years with my son. Anywho. I’d definitely use an app that gave the kid recommendations and some discover-ablilty that the YT algorithm provides (probably with some more pre-filtering) except just as tiles/gifs previews and they had to “request access” to any video to play. Or have some redefined categories as you mentioned. Then once a video was allowed, it would appear as available in the app via yt-dlp or similar. This does 2 main things I prefer as a parent. I get control over the content. It removes the instant feedback /random access loop of on-demand streaming. For some things it might even be good to control how many times they can watch it , or if they have to ask permission again, etc. Not sure if you could bolt on / use as a base but this kind of customizations for stacher would be perfect.