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Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by chrislan815 »

hackernewds wrote: post #30
barbinbrad wrote: post #26

A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/

Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products. Fwiw

ironically

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by lukko »

ArtWomb wrote: post #29
lukko wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Working on it, hopefully at some point this year..

Filament & Oboe should match iOS performance in both realms: real time physically based sprite render, and polyphonic synth. Good Stuff, ideal for ai gurus teaching "pranayama sciences" ;) Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

oh amazing, I was looking for equivalent frameworks - thank you!

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by jacobkranz »

hackernewds wrote: post #30
barbinbrad wrote: post #26

A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/

Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products. Fwiw

I agree. It's felt like a lot of online forums are starting to become Quora where it's all self-promotion thinly veiled as adding to the conversation. It reminds me of PG's The Submarine blog post (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by pstuart »

hackernewds wrote: post #30
barbinbrad wrote: post #26

A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/

Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products. Fwiw

As the OP is about an app for stress and anxiety, promoting similar apps doesn't seem all that unreasonable.

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by dceddia »

yboris wrote: post #9

side note -- is it just me, or have Vimeo videos always been horrible as embeds? They take longer to load than YouTube, they take too long to fast-forward (click in the middle and wait 5 seconds before you see the video at that time location). And on this embeded video I couldn't even change the volume! It's frustrating me to the point that I just opted not to watch the video on this website :(

I’ve been on the lookout for a better way to do embeddable videos. The YouTube one is fine, but for a landing page, it’s not great that YT (of course) tries to get you to watch recommended videos right afterward.

I was actually going to say, Wistia has a nice player but it’s expensive - and then I just checked their pricing and they actually have lowered prices quite a bit! There’s even a generous free tier now.

I’ve also been curious about how hard it’d be to self-host an embedded video. Naively it seems like the hardest part would be encoding it into a bunch of sizes and chunks… and then keeping an eye on bandwidth. I found a good blog on it a while ago and can’t find it now.

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by esel2k »

Few feedbacks: - It think description in the store is too exhaustive. Be more to the point.

- I like the concept as I was using mindfulness app mostly for the breathing exercises but ended up downloading the video and playing it to myself. I like that the whole app is just around this.

- I personally would enjoy a mood tracker and a daily notification or quiet time moment reminder to increase adherence.

- on top of this some motivational aspects and smileys can help :)

Good job by the way.

PS: I manage a patient facing MS app will many trackers:).

Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

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Post by barbinbrad »

hackernewds wrote: post #30
barbinbrad wrote: post #26

A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/

Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products. Fwiw

I feel you. But it's not a product. Not anything I'm doing anything with. Just thought it might be an interesting thing for the OP to integrate into his app.
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