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I have a site. It's 5-30 minutes of meditation. There's a little music and a repetitive voice. You track yourself and see if it goes up or down. The app levels
by muzani 2y ago
I have a site. It's 5-30 minutes of meditation. There's a little music and a repetitive voice. You track yourself and see if it goes up or down. The app levels you up to more minutes after a week of consistent use - we found that people were actually getting angrier, not calmer, if they could just start at 30 minutes.
It definitely works, we have the data because users submit it. But there's not much else to it. The goal of mental health apps should be to get people to not need them, similar to how dating apps are meant to not be used.
We haven't really found a business model for it yet. Pay what you like worked very well. Pay $25 for unlimited use was okay, but the cash barrier discouraged people from using it which went against the goal.
So it's not financially scalable yet, and because of that it's not VC backable and we can't focus on it full time. It's been up since 2018, and now costs $7/month in heroku fees, but hey, some people paid that $25 a few years back, so I'll have to keep it up for as long as possible.
The problem with VC backed is that it has to become unicorn and ends up using CBD or whatever BS VCs are into even where it's not necessary.