Helm
Consumer and social
mental health app
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.
Idea: 1 for, 7 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Well-built, intuitive Flutter app useful as a reference
From 1 comment
I'm a simple man -- I see an open source Flutter app, I upvote it. Thanks for publishing this, I always appreciate seeing examples of full-fledged Flutter apps for reference! The…
baylessj on HN
Useful for people who want to learn Flutter and Dart
From 1 comment
Thanks for contributing a nice piece of work particularly appropriate for tough times! I’ve been wanting to learn Dart and Flutter on a real-life but manageable project.
tomcam on HN
Objections
Gamifying anxiety or depression may feed unhealthy coping or stress
From 3 comments
We 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…
Funes- on HNI don’t know, gamifying stress/anxiety management sounds extremely stressful.
asutekku on HNI'm not a fan of the "Buy something nice" one. It seems like it might feed a harmful coping mechanism.
sli on HN
Reward system is ill-conceived
From 2 comments
We 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…
Funes- on HNI think earning rewards, in general, is kind of an awkward thing in an app like this.
dinkleberg on HN
Name clashes with existing Helm projects
From 2 comments
This 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…
jolmg on HNSEO clash with the popular artifact packager or k8s helm
gigatexal on HN
Privacy concerns about health data
From 1 comment
As 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…
trashface on HN
Requests
Provide builds or downloadable binaries
From 2 comments
Why don't you provide builds?
solarkraft on HNSeconded, would love to send this to a friend to try out.
mdolon on HN
Rename the anxiety credits currency
From 1 comment
I would suggest renaming 'anxiety credits' to something else, reminding people they have anxiety won't help getting rid of it.
gdsdfe on HN
Questions
Is the code really open source given its license
From 2 comments
It is not technically open source, but 'source provided' until there is an OSS license provided.
rapnie on HNTrue it may not technically be open source, but certain rights are granted because the author published on GitHub, according to the ToS: > If you set your pages and repositories…
evv on HN
How the maker finds Flutter as a platform
From 1 comment
How do you like flutter? What are your impressions of the platform.
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Alternatives named
Gamification approaches like SuperBetter
From 1 comment
for: https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McGonigal/dp/0143109774 https://tim.blog/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/ against: https://mental.jmir.org/2019/6/e13717/
perchard on HN