Show HN: Stopping.app – quit drinking with the support of a small group

Re:Show HN: Stopping.app – quit drinking with the support of... by mritchie712 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:04PM (#29786860)

It's just a nodejs app with Postgres and Twilio.

To be completely honest, this is a labor of love and I don't see any ethical way to monetize it so I haven't been marketing it. I'm planning to post it a few more places to try to get an initial core group of users, but it'll need to spread thru word of mouth to stay alive.

Totally agree on AA. I don't see the need to involve religion in order to quit drinking and it's off-putting to many people.

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Re:Show HN: Stopping.app – quit drinking with the support of... by bumpkinjunkie on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:48PM (#29790654)

Re: labor of love, according to AA's Form 990 for the year ending 2019[1]

Revenue: $11.3M General Manager salary: $352k 7 other execs making ~$150-200k

There are lots of impact accelerators out there who might fund solutions like this. Saving people's lives comes in different forms and there is a big societal economic benefit created, there could be different ways to capture a fair share of that. Maybe it's solving another problem, like job placement or sober housing, that creates a revenue stream down the road.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/13167...

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Re:Show HN: Stopping.app – quit drinking with the support of... by manuko83 on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:29PM (#29789907)

This is pretty cool, have you thought about also implementing it to help quit smoking? I believe the same cohort approach can be used...would just have to divide into smokers cohorts and drinkers cohorts.

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