For parents & teens 13–17

Five minutes a day. Closer for years.

One good question a day for you and your teenager. You each answer on your own phone, on your own time — and nobody sees a single answer until everyone has answered. Two minutes. Then it's yours to keep, forever.

iOS, Android & web · one price for the whole family · no tracking, ever

Today · a brave one
Tell me about a time you messed up and it turned out okay.
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SITHARA · 16
The time I bombed the audition and ended up on tech crew instead. Best year of school I've had.
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AAKASH · 13
Broke the garage window. Dad laughed. Still not over it 😅

Their answers stay hidden until you send yours. That's the whole trick.

11 memories in the Gollapalli jar

160Questions sequenced by relationship researchers — light ones first, the deeper ones only once you're ready.
BothYou answer too. Your teen sees what you wrote the second they send theirs.
KeptEvery answer becomes a marble in your family's jar. The jar only fills up.
How the day goes

It works because nobody has to go first.

No sitting anyone down. No “we need to talk.” Just a question, two phones, and a moment where you both find out what the other one said.

1
knock

A question arrives

One question each morning, chosen for where your family actually is — not a random prompt pulled from a list.

2
answer

Everyone answers alone

A sentence is enough. So is a joke, or a photo. Skip it entirely and nobody is told — not even your parent.

3
plink

Everything unlocks at once

The last answer opens them all, and a marble drops for each. That's the part your family comes back for.

The jar

Nothing you say here ever disappears.

Most of what your family says to each other is gone by morning. Here, every answered day becomes a marble — and the answers stay, dated and readable, for as long as you want them.

There's no streak to break and no counter shaming you for a bad week. The jar doesn't empty. It only fills.

184 answers · 3 years · 1 family
week one

Four answers in. It still feels like a novelty.

six months

It's a habit now. Nobody has to remind anyone.

three years

She leaves for college with all of it saved.

Eight kinds of questions. Zero “how was school.”

a silly one a brave one a heart one a heritage one an imagination one a grateful one a curious one a dream one

Grounded in the research behind the “Do You Know?” scale — teenagers who know their family's stories score higher on resilience and self-esteem. These questions are how those stories get told.

Things families actually say now

Did you plink today?replaces “how was your day”
I plinked. Your turn.the nudge that isn't nagging
Amma plinked something weird.a 16-year-old, voluntarily, about her mother
417 plinks.one family, three years in
If you're the parent

A way in that isn't an interrogation.

You've asked “how was your day” a thousand times and gotten “fine” a thousand times. This asks better questions than you can think of at dinner — and it asks them of you, too.

If you're the teen

You get to see what your parents actually think.

They have to answer the awkward one before they see yours. Be funny, be short, or skip it — nobody gets told. It's honestly kind of interesting to find out what they say.

Privacy

The deal we made with your teenager.

In a year, you'll have 365 of these.

Start tonight with one question. Free for 30 days — because a two-minute habit needs longer than a week to prove it's worth keeping.