robertrmorris

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   Koko (YC W22) Is Hiring a CTO / Lead Engineer(ycombinator.com)

   1 points by robertrmorris 2y ago
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Good questions. And your experience makes a lot of sense. Ideally, we would see positive changes persist over many time points (and so we aren't measuring immediately before self-harming and immediately after). I'd be really grate
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Thanks a lot, that's really nice to hear. We've had a somewhat meandering path, which you can read about here: https://www.kokocares.org/origin-story
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   That's great to hear. Kudos to your wife! Koko works well outside of the USA (but is English only). One of our earliest users, from London, is now a member of our core team. We regularly consult clinical advisors (listed here: https:&
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Frankly, I agree with pretty much all of this. We hear similar things from our users. This is why we try to provide a suite of options, including things like peer support and other interventions they can engage with immediately — as complim
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Thank you. We can release bindings for new languages very quickly. Just fill out our signup form and we'll prioritize Elixir. https://r.kokocares.org/api_signup/
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Great questions, thank you. Looking only at completers creates selection bias, for the reasons you articulate. In published studies, we compare interventions to control conditions (ideally an “active” control, or something that has some pur
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   Hi, thanks for your interest. The resources appear differently for different platforms we integrate with. In some cases they can be accessed via DM. Some will differ based on the search term as well. The most generic case is here: https:&#
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   by robertrmorris 5y ago

   We’re a non-profit and our service will always be available for free. There is no paywall. We support ourselves through donations. This should be more clear on our landing page, thanks for noting this.
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    by robertrmorris 5y ago

    Yea this is an interesting problem. The whole question of whether, when, or how to intercept someone who might be in trouble is really challenging and we’ve thought about this for many years (and had some missteps along the way and learned
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    by robertrmorris 5y ago

    Great questions! Our library runs completely on the server side, caching a list of regexes which are used to match against. So no data is ever sent to our API. As for publishing the lists, it's definitely something we're thinking
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    by robertrmorris 5y ago

    Thanks for the question. I’m going to interpret this broadly and try to go from there, but let me know if you had something more specific in mind. TL;DR At a high level, for people who complete our interventions, we see 71% feel more hopefu
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    by robertrmorris 5y ago

    "oops" new landing page. I updated the links, but you can also find them on our main page: "www.kokocares.org". Note also that for the kit, we have our own licensing agreement that's available if you sign up, but is
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    by robertrmorris 5y ago

    Thanks for reporting this. We use an embedded typeform for our signup page which looks to be ok but you can also go directly to the form here ( https://koko-ai.typeform.com/to/xB0X2Grc ). For the Python docs, our languag
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    Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit

    184 points by robertrmorris 5y ago|53 comments