The idea for Tin Can came to Chet Kittleson when he was outside his kids’ school, chatting with a group of parents about the playdate planning process.
“It’s so much, I’m like an assistant to my kid,” the group agreed.
In the moment, Kittleson said he recalled the ease of being a kid who could jump on a landline phone at home to ring a friend to hang out.
Two years later, Kittleson and co-founders Graeme Davies and Max Blumen, all veterans of onetime Seattle real estate startup Far Homes, are releasing colorful new WiFi-enabled landline phones shaped like tin cans so kids can talk to one another…