Parents of children in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy and other developmental programs receive reams of session data from therapists but have no good way to visualize progress over time. Existing ABA software (Catalyst, CentralReach, Hi Rasmus) is designed for clinicians, not parents. The parent portal is an afterthought: a login wall hiding raw data tables. Parents want clear, visual dashboards showing their child's behavioral trends, skill acquisition, and session-over-session progress in a format they can understand without clinical training.
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The ABA therapy market is deeply entrenched with clinician-focused tools that treat parents as an afterthought. The builder on HN is using Observable Framework for visualizations, which is a smart technical choice for data-heavy dashboards. The business model insight: don't try to replace Catalyst or CentralReach. Build the parent-facing layer that imports data FROM those platforms via CSV/API and presents it beautifully. Charge parents $9/month or get clinics to bundle it as a value-add for client retention.
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ABA software is a $500M+ market but entirely clinician-facing. Parent portals are afterthoughts showing raw tables and PDFs. No product provides beautiful, intuitive visual dashboards specifically designed for non-clinical parents to understand their child's therapy progress. The behavior.today builder is attacking this from the visualization side but the full opportunity includes data import from major ABA platforms, automated progress summaries, and milestone alerts.