I'm not a fan of the "Buy something nice" one. It seems like it might feed a harmful coping mechanism.
I think earning rewards, in general, is kind of an awkward thing in an app like this.
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#42We should be able to aid each other, in person, on learning how to manage these ailments, which are frequently associated to a lack of social fulfillment, as I've personally experienced on myself. Gamifying it is literally the last option I would recommend to anyone suffering from anxiety, stress or depression, as blindly following an app's dictates goes essentially against the hard, introspective, and highly critica…
Nothing wrong with crutches. If they don't work for you don't assume them useless to others. Ditto the "reward" function that @throwit-hey15 used so successfully.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#43This project name is so overused. Helm - The package manager for Kurbenetes https://helm.sh/ Helm - A functionally reactive game engine https://github.com/z0w0/helm Helm - Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ Helm - A free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation https://github.com/mtytel/helm
Complaints about names tend to provide little in the way of insightful feedback. Changing the name won’t move the project forward very much if at all. Mostly it’s a distraction. Based on evidence of multiple successful projects named ‘helm’ listed, there’s a good chance it’s a good enough name.
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#44No. The correct answer is “shit on its name” and not to encourage people to share cool projects. You fool! Ed. note: I also upvoted for the same reason
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Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what they're saying at all. Imagine if there was a line of blenders called Raspberry Pi, and a furniture line called Raspberry Pi, shoes branded as Raspberry Pi, a laptop model called Raspberry Pi (unrelated to Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi), etc. It's just confusing.
Raspberry Pi is a really unnatural combination of words. Helm is a pretty average noun.
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Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't grant any meaningful rights at all. Notably, it doesn't given any right to download or use the code.
I think it does allow download, although it is a little unclear; from the previous sentence: > By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control). If I clone a Github repo to my local machine this is 'making my own copy in a repository I cont…
It later clarifies with "through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking)."
That seems to deny any local rights.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#47As a person with anxiety and depression, its easy to come up with dep/anx fueled narratives about how this could go wrong:
1) The app might stress me out and make it worse
2) I might become obsessed with the app and not do stuff I should be doing
3) My employer might get the data somehow and fire me
4) A future employer might get the data and use it as a reason to not hire me
5) Google might get the data and add it my shadow profile, which will then be sold to advertisers. I won't even know and won't be able to delete it.
6) A health insurer will use this as a reason to deny me insurance or charge a premium.
Those are just off the type of my head. Don't want to think about what my brain would come up with at 3AM.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#48Oof, I thought Flutter was supposed to make programmatic UI more readable/easy? body: Stack( children: [ LayoutBuilder( builder: (ctx, constraints) => Container( width: double.infinity, height: constraints.maxHeight - 67.0, padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 0.0), child: Column( mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [ Column( mainAxisSize: MainAxis .…
Yikes, that’s quite something
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#50I would suggest renaming 'anxiety credits' to something else, reminding people they have anxiety won't help getting rid of it.