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robertrmorris

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    Comment #30817496

    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-h…

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    Comment #30817039

    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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    Comment #30817033

    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 reg…

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    Comment #30815797

    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…

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    Comment #30814987

    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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    Comment #30814820

    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 …

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    Comment #30814534

    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 s…

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    Comment #30814320

    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, th…

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    Comment #30814127

    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 …

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    Comment #30814036

    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 th…

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    Comment #30813997

    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…

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    Comment #30813978

    "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…

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    Comment #30813957

    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/xB0X…

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    Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit

    Hi! My name is Rob and I’m working with my cofounder Kareem on Koko ( https://www.kokocares.org ). We’re a nonprofit that provides free digital mental health services to millions o…