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In a world where there are literal conferences on how to psychologically abuse people to spend money in your app I feel that I'd never trust any sort of app tha
by kabacha 7y ago
In a world where there are literal conferences on how to psychologically abuse people to spend money in your app I feel that I'd never trust any sort of app that aims "help my psychologicall health".
Combined that with the fact that this whole "reveal article" has no actual substance and trying to sell me the idea and emotion rather than a feature makes feel that I'm being manipulated already and I hadn't even opened up the app yet!
I feel that the "app" medium has lost any credibility for providing solutions of this sort.
- 1propionyl 7y agoIt never actually had any credibility for these sorts of deep and complex social problems. That was just a lie we told ourselves and investors during the heyday where we naively believed we were going to solve all of the world's problems through apps. It was never real. No one ever actually believed an app could fix loneliness or depression outside of bored investors with too much money and time on their hands and starving startup developers desperate to break even. And yes, dear HN reader, that likely means YOU. HN readers love to rightfully talk shit about Gwyneth Paltrow and GOOP, but apparently can't see that many of them are pushing the exact same kind of bullshit for a different audience.
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoMeetup has actually been pretty effective for me. Granted it's more of a website than an app, not sure the distinction is important though.
- wkey 7y agoI am so tired of generic Tech Crunch articles like this that add no new/ meaningful information.