7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners

Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by paul on Monday August 05, 2013 @02:53PM (#6162071)

Having personally gone through some very difficult times, this is one of the startups that I'm most excited about for the very simple reason that I believe it has the potential to help millions of people in a very direct and personal way. I've already started referring family members to the service.

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by clicks on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:49PM (#6162465)

It's wonderful to see the problem of depression being targeted in a new and interesting way, but I'm very scared for the chance of this being exploited in 4chan-style raids. They've trolled everything from cancer community forums to lgbt support forums to whatever else you can think of.

Are listeners first going to be vetted? Is there going to be some push in associating listeners with their Facebook accounts, to have them authenticated as the good folks. Any comments in general about making it resilient to these types of attacks?

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by Maxious on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:51PM (#6164209)

In Australia an online counselling service had a privacy breach and was shut down by the potential amount of legal action that followed http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2010/03/sacked-depre...

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by brandnewlow on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:59AM (#6165220)

It seems that most of the time when a startup is announced on HN and commenters point out obvious legal dangers, the startup goes on to do pretty well.

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by 7cupsoftea on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:53PM (#6162488)

Clicks want to send me an email to further discuss? info at 7 cups of tea dot com.

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by akulbe on Monday August 05, 2013 @07:12PM (#6163806)

Please understand me. No desire to sound negative. No wishes for anything but the best. I am just curious as to what your business model will be for this?

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by markdown on Monday August 05, 2013 @09:41PM (#6164373)

If you look at the screenshots, listeners can charge a fee. So far it appears to be all free, but eventually I'm sure they'll have a few professionals (psychiatrists, etc) on there who you can pay to talk to.

The startup will obviously make a commission on that.

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by clicks on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:59PM (#6162531)

Sure thing, would be happy to.

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Re:7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional... by nadaviv on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:15PM (#6162634)

"Potential listeners must complete an online training program and speak with Moriarty on the phone before they start taking calls."

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