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trubetskov

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About trubetskov

23 years in software — dev, CEO of a 30-person web agency, CMO. Now building Mentalium (https://mentalium.me), a voice-first CBT thought diary: CBT helped me with anxiety and depression, typing thought records during a panic attack didn't. So I built the voice one.

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    Comment #49243916

    This is an updated version of our research on 542 dead mental health startups. We took the feedback from the dataset thread and reworked the report: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

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    Comment #49243809

    Update: took the feedback here and reworked the report. Emojis fixed, filler text cut, dataset linked from inside the report. Same 542 companies, same numbers. https://mentalium.me…

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    Comment #49233021

    Hi! what are results? Do they differ?

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    not in every case. i think that we are making a very helpful tool - Mentalium - Voice CBT Diary. I made it for myself and i undrestand the problemts it solves really really good.

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    Comment #49174236

    why should it be so? we collected it from open sources and analised very carefully to put all the markers. so i think there is no law that can say "make it private".

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    Comment #49174208

    We did this research for ourselves and started with "by-hand" inspection of every dead startup we could find. and i can say we found almost every. so you can spend no time reading …

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    i would say yes it does. such startups have no future. the case of one of the most famous ai-therapy-replacers Woebot proved this by its bancrupcy and $100M+ investment burnt.

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    Comment #49174144

    You suspect wrong. We did this report for ourselves to correct the strategy and decided to make it public. All data is accurately checked, all numbers and maths can be easily check…

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