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by flaque 7y ago
To answer the obvious question: we don't store your thoughts. We store anonymous behavioral info like strings of "USER-a23o13jaf signed on to a free trial." Then our bug-checking system also stores some anonymous device info
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by flaque 7y ago
> I do not trust the incentive structures of Silicon Valley to permit you to adhere to this principle. Neither do I! My point is more so that we try to take steps not just to say "hey we don't read your thoughts" but also
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by flaque 7y ago
> I think it's good to first make sure you can satisfy users at whatever price point is sustainable and then later you can open up the floodgates via freemium when you're ready for the volume. Exactly, would much rather be sust
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by flaque 7y ago
You can't. I think we're a reasonable bet because you know where the money is coming from. We have no incentive to sell your thoughts to anyone, because you're literally the one paying us. But you'll really just have to
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by flaque 7y ago
No, it doesn't store you mental health thoughts on any servers. They're all stored only on your device. The caveats are below: We collect anonymous, aggregate (as in "user-213sdfewfefwa") events. This is stuff like: >
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by flaque 7y ago
> I agree, but an unsustainable business can't help anyone at all. 10000%. This has basically been my learning experience (Koby's much more knowledgeable than I am). It's amazing how many people you can help if don't
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by flaque 7y ago
1000% this: > if you feel terrible, ask yourself whether you're having the right perspective. One of the most common bits of "debugging" we do with folks is that they know they feel like crap, but they're not sure if
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by flaque 7y ago
> I think the term 'open-source' and link to GitHub have no place in your marketing materials at this point. You're gunning for the public now, and your support channel is going to be clogged with questions about why open-
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by flaque 7y ago
Thank you! Good luck in the job hunt/interviewing. It took me a LONG time and a lot of tries before I stopped freezing up in interviews. CBT (with or without Quirk) is definitely something that can help you here and definitely recommen
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by flaque 7y ago
True, it makes sense for software packages, but less so for real products. If we build out any packages for public use in the future, they'll likely be MIT not GPL.
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by flaque 7y ago
I think he's definitely correct that we're too cheap right now, but I agree that you can still make quite a company and still be dramatically cheaper than any reasonable option. There's definitely a middle ground.
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by flaque 7y ago
Thank you! It probably needs a refresher at some point, but I'd like to keep the explanation focused style. Plus, we'd really like to make the site have lots of free explanations about CBT and it's concepts. That's why w
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by flaque 7y ago
1 - At the moment, we don't. :( One of the next things we'll be working on is an end-to-end encrypted cloud sync. So we won't storing the "raw" thoughts, but you'll still be able to get access to them. 2 - Ah,
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by flaque 7y ago
So far no one has done it. Quirk's got a closed source api that it interacts with, which makes it a bit trickier to straight rip off. Plus, we own the brand, which is a pretty big reason why people try Quirk in the first place.
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by flaque 7y ago
Hmm, there's a closed source API that Quirk interacts with. Plus, we still retain ownership over the name and branding.
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by flaque 7y ago
To be honest, I just kind of picked it and went with it. I think at the time I had been talking a lot with my dad (an old copy-left enthusiast). I never really thought it would really be a thing.
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by flaque 7y ago
The x axis is a labeling bug. I THINK it was weeks? But the code that generated this was a small python script that was on a laptop that I wiped. I wouldn't assign any clinical significance though to it (or to Quirk quite yet), especia
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by flaque 7y ago
WOAH thank you for the in-depth feedback dude! On Pricing - Agreed. This pricing mostly came out of a bit of nativity on my part. I assumed that wanting to make something accessible meant being really cheap. But we're very quickly real
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by flaque 7y ago
Mine too! Thank you!
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by flaque 7y ago
I know folks are supposed to have reasons for open sourcing things and I might a bit naive here, but the best answer I can give you is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I like open source. I couldn't find any strong reasons why it couldn't be open
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by flaque 7y ago
Thank you! Please let us know how it goes for you. It definitely takes a bit of practice; it took me a bit to get it at least. Our biggest challenge at the moment is helping folks through that "initial" barrier.
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by flaque 7y ago
Thank you for recommending it! I really hope it's helping. Re:pushed-to-be-general --> 1000%, this is definitely a concern. We're definitely new to this world, so we're talking a lot with more experienced founders who unde
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Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
196 points by flaque 7y ago|93 comments
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by flaque 7y ago
In a lot of places, even 100 person villages have a regular bus system. This isn't about density, it's about infrastructure.
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by flaque 7y ago
This is wildly dependent on your original design actually being good. Many products are NOT good at first and constantly redesign until they get something good. It's silly to give blanket advice "never redesign your product."
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by flaque 7y ago
Are these curated? Or is it truly just new things?
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by flaque 7y ago
These should just be running 24/7 in a lobby of a building somewhere
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by flaque 7y ago
I would much rather pay for a product over time. When you pay upfront, the dev is not incentivized to try and keep you. So the product gets worse and worse until it dies. If you pay overtime, the whole game is “how can we make this person l
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by flaque 7y ago
Super excited to see this used in scientific computing; python notebooks will get quite a big upgrade.
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by flaque 7y ago
This is a "whataboutism," the point was that we could have much less noise in towns and cities, which would be nice.

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