To get points users should be doing the self-care tasks that fall by the wayside with depression. e.g. shower, brush teeth, laundry, cleaning your home/apt/room/car, grocery shopping, etc. Social interaction also. Things like watching online videos and playing mobile games isn't going to pull anyone out of that hole.
Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
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Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#52This 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
Who's heard of those? Should a project have a monopoly on such a generic word from the dictionary?
Helm could be considered almost industry standard tooling for k8s users these days... At least in my circle, when the world helm is used it's as obvious what is mean as when 'apt' or 'yum' is mentioned...
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#53SEO clash with the popular artifact packager or k8s helm
There's also an open source digital synthesizer named Helm
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#54This comment turns out to be a tangent. But has anyone looked at whether gamification increases stress/anxiety/depression among social app users?
for: https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McG... https://tim.blog/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/ against: https://mental.jmir.org/2019/6/e13717/
Your "against" seems to be an actual study, your "for" links are from Jane McGonigal who's been criticized for making claims not backed up in any way and who makes money selling "betterness" through apps, TED talks, and books.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#55How do you like flutter? What are your impressions of the platform.
Personally, I wasn't a big fan of having to disable the telemetry in the SDK itself - thankfully there was a single, small footnote about it in the docs. Not sure what I expected from the Goog honestly, but it was enough to put a bad taste in my mouth. But hey, M$ does it too with the dotnet core SDK, so maybe that's "par for the course" these days. YMMV.
Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#56We 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…
It depends on the person and situation. Sometimes the game becomes the major source of stress, sometimes it's the right abstraction and motivation for improvement.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#57This 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
Who's heard of those? Should a project have a monopoly on such a generic word from the dictionary?
I use two of those helms every day.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I wasn't a big fan of having to disable the telemetry in the SDK itself - thankfully there was a single, small footnote about it in the docs. Not sure what I expected from the Goog honestly, but it was enough to put a bad taste in my mouth. But hey, M$ does it too with the dotnet core SDK, so maybe that's "par for the course" these days. YMMV.
Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?
Telemetry is when companies measure and collect your usage of their product, in theory so they can improve it, know which features are used and which not, where users spend most time, etc.
As it is a kind of vague definition and you (almost) never know exactly what information is being transmitted, and given the fact that it is Google (or Microsoft, or Apple, or whatever), people sometimes rather just disable telemetry at all.
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#59This 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
It's also part of a ship and the word has been in use for more than 8 centuries: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helm
Re: Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management
#60This 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
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