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Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by bejd »

FireInsight wrote: post #118
johnnymaroney wrote: post #90

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your appreciation for the site (except that one guy who hated it). Pretty awesome to see this little side project make it to the front page on here. I'm working on a new project called Feel ( https://www.feelapp.io ) which is an app that helps you feel all emotions on demand. It goes beyond just crying and helps you navigate and shift your mood in real time. It can make you cry too…

Not gonna lie, this whole "Feel - Emotions on Demand" thing sounds like a slightly dystopian scifi concept. Maybe like a Black Mirror -style parody of how even emotions can be manufactured nowadays.

Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open [...] in the future", or "888 [...] The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by xg15 »

> Studies show crying can relieve stress for a week.

Correlation, causation, etc?

I.e. I can easily imagine that, if something is seriously weighting on your mind, opening up about it and even crying would reduce stress.

It might even be the other way: That once people get a moment to de-stress and get a chance to mentally process some devastating event, they will cry.

I find it much harder to believe that just crying about some random, unrelated thing will magically make you more relaxed.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by Lalabadie »

GTP wrote: post #164
johnnymaroney wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that reaction and see how it could sound a bit Black Mirror ish. It's literally just art and curated audiovisual experiences designed to help you feel and process your emotions though. We’re already living in a scifi dystopia where our emotions are constantly being manipulated by social media, algorithms, ads, etc. Feel is an attempt to offer an intentional alternative. It's not about manufacturing emotions. It…

Not a psychologist, but I have doubts that this is a more conscious and aware way of going through emotions. If you're so stressed about something that it makes you cry, this is a signal that there is something wrong that you need to change or takle/face in some way. If you're inducing cry once a week to relieve your stress, you're instead trying to silence the signal telling that something might be wrong. Like takin…

Of course, but a lot of therapy in North America nowadays becomes needed not because the patient can change fundamentals variables in their life (job, family situation), but as a coping mechanism for these variables being out of wack with no discernible path to change.

Its far from ideal and indeed borderline dystopian, but to borrow your metaphor, it's the difference between a fracture, and a fracture with some painkillers available.

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by xg15 »

johnnymaroney wrote: post #90

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your appreciation for the site (except that one guy who hated it). Pretty awesome to see this little side project make it to the front page on here. I'm working on a new project called Feel ( https://www.feelapp.io ) which is an app that helps you feel all emotions on demand. It goes beyond just crying and helps you navigate and shift your mood in real time. It can make you cry too…

Would be a shame if someone picked those up and surreptitiously inserted them in feeds of their social network to manipulate the users' emotions- I mean, "maximize engagement"...

Re: Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

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Post by dmos62 »

rcbdev wrote: post #132
andrewyazura wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the fact that it doesn't open in russia makes me happy, to be honest

Yes, of course. Russians are, in fact, not people and do not deserve to view Western sites, media or actually any web service hosted by Western nations. What kind of a take is this? If you strategically block an entire nation from viewing our sites and media, you're handing the state-run media there more power.

> What kind of a take is this?

The take of the Russian government?

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