About
The adult is the one wearing the cape.
Look at the logo again. Two figures over an open book, and it’s the grown-up wearing the cape. That wasn’t an accident. That’s the whole thing.
Every other homework app makes the kid the hero and you the payer. They type the question in, an answer comes back, and you’re sitting right there knowing exactly as much as you did a minute ago. Tomorrow night you’re stuck again.
That’s backwards. At seven o’clock the person who needs help usually isn’t the kid. It’s you — taught long division a completely different way, or out of school before Grade 9, and quietly worried your kid is about to work out that you don’t know either.
So we write to you instead. Every reply is a coaching card — what to say, what to ask, what to listen for, and hints to hand over one at a time. Your kid still does the work. You just stop dreading the table.
The Hero Rule
Every reply must make the parent more capable — never the child more dependent.
It’s built into the thing that writes every card, and it gets checked before the card goes out. If a reply drifts too close to handing over the answer, the answer is stripped and the card gets flagged instead of quietly sent.
What we do when we’re wrong
We’ll misread a question sometimes, or explain a method in a way your kid’s teacher wouldn’t recognise. CAPS gets taught differently from school to school, and we’d rather say that out loud than pretend we’re the last word on it.
When we’re not sure, the card says so. If one’s wrong, tell us on WhatsApp and a person picks it up. We’d honestly rather be corrected than trusted blindly. The teacher is the authority here. We’re not.
Who runs it
Homework Hero is built and run by Link Nova in South Africa, for South African families on CAPS.
It’s a small operation on purpose. The people who build it sit on the same WhatsApp number that answers your homework questions: +27 78 680 1366.