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Resident builds app to safeguard youth from internet

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A Lowcountry father developed an application to help parents provide children with phones that lack internet access. He created the tool after finding existing market options for safeguarding youth online were nearly nonexistent. The app aims to provide a safer mobile experience for first-time phone users.

For parents wanting to give their kids a first phone without the internet attached, the options are nearly nonexistent. So one Lowcountry father decided to build his own.

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