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Feedback wanted on a children’s party planning app idea

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Amcdon83 · 13/09/2026 18:03

Hi everyone,
I'm currently developing an idea called Party Pal and I'd really value some honest feedback from parents.
The idea came from how much time can disappear when you're organising a child's birthday party — looking for themes, decorations, food ideas, activities, places to buy everything and trying to pull it all together.
Party Pal is intended to make that process much easier by creating a personalised party plan in one place.
But before I develop it much further, I want to find out whether this actually solves a problem for parents — rather than building something based on my own assumptions!
I've put together a short 3-minute survey covering how you currently organise parties, what you find most difficult, which features would actually be useful and what (if anything) you'd consider paying for something like this.
I'd be extremely grateful for honest opinions — including if you wouldn't use it!
Survey here:
https://form.jotform.com/262554610716052
It's aimed at UK parents/guardians who organise children's birthday parties.
There's nothing to buy and I'm not selling Party Pal through this post. I'm simply trying to understand whether the concept has genuine potential and what parents would actually want from it.
Thank you so much to anyone who takes a few minutes to help. 🎈

Party Pal Market Research Survey – UK

Please click the link to complete this form.

https://form.jotform.com/262554610716052

OP posts:
Chunkybabythighs · 13/09/2026 18:54

Having looked at the survey it says AI based - why would I pay you to create me an AI party guide when I could just ask AI myself for free?

ElefantAndCastle · 13/09/2026 18:54

AI? no thank you

Arlanymor · 13/09/2026 18:56

It's AI-based, people have very strong views about AI and those who would use it would just use it themselves rather than use an app - why put a third party process in the middle of things when you could just use AI yourself? Also the question about 'do you plan children's parties' makes no sense - why would anyone who didn't plan parties be looking to use an app or answer the survey?

SleepingisanArt · 13/09/2026 19:10

The survey says would you pay but if you answer no you still have to say what kind of subscription you'd like! Obviously AI was used to make the questionnaire as a human would know that 'no' makes the next question redundant. (And this is why people hate AI chat bots and questionnaires; they don't make sense.)

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