aleksdahlberg

Totally agree, this is the battle we have - Vanta was sold as doing a lot of the heavy lifting, but really it's an interface for you to do the heavy lifting.

Probo is being sold to us as managed which is attractive, but I have zero proof of it. Seems similar to how Vanta was initially sold to us...

Thanks for the feedback and for taking a read of things. I wouldn't treat this as a diagnosis (it's not) more of an indication as it's trained on PHQ9 data - which is not a full diagnostic tool. However, clinicians do use this tool to help assess and decide on appropriate interventions or actions to take.

I agree (though I wouldn't use the words "creepy as fuck" but I get your point), I think it's super important that this technology is available only upon permission by the end user - this is what I've done with Sahha to the best of our ability - relying on native permission handling has been super beneficial.

As for use-cases, there are plenty - and some not as direct as others but particularly within healthcare and life sciences there are plenty of uses around efficacy tracking and making sure interventions and treatments can be delivered appropriately based on objective assessment. The latter use leads into the problem many companies delivering health care interventions have with survey fatigue and subjective data bias.

It'd be very hard to determine ones spiritual state, with or without a phone I agree, I also agree with your sentiment about devices having a negative impact when used in negatively habitual ways, those are things I cannot solve.

Sahha isn't about phone usage though (however one of the 84 ML features is a proxy for such things), Sahha uses the device mostly as a way to capture some behavioral data points (hence the passive element of it).

I hope that helps your understanding!

If you asked me a year ago “what’s the invasive bit of technology you could make?” I’d probably have said something like this “technology that can predict how you feel”. So I went and built that...

All jokes aside though (and I am joking!), I'm finally (officially) launching Sahha's API. What does it do? It analyzes user behavioral data (steps, sleep, phone locks...) collected through mobile devices to understand their mental health state.

Why did I build it? I believe that great technology products deliver better value, care and interventions because they understand their users needs deeply. As the world gets more complex and digitally integrated it means that new sources of data are available to improve how we build digital health care solutions and beyond. I think Sahha can empower those solutions.

Most likely you but also everyone involved in building and growing Sahha has a mental health story, and for the most part I feel as if I am doing my life’s work with this project.

Today is a pretty big day we’ve gone live on Product Hunt and the product is mostly stable as of now.

Keen to hear your thoughts. Btw I'm NZDT might be slow to respond.

This is a great response. They could take a category approach similar to funding stages, ie: idea, pre-seed, seed, series A, series B+

This is an interesting approach, I think exclusivity was previously a bit of a strong point they had.

Thanks a lot! Yes, we have found these questions really useful in improving our responses when we have meetings with investors. It teaches you to really explain the crux of the question as simply as possible.

Thanks, we have our interview Tuesday so I don't have time to make anything too fancy. I'd like to improve it a bit but it's probably best to get back to building what matters.

It's coded terribly.

We were running through interview Q's we found online and I thought it'd be best to have us answer them randomly, with a 10 second timer and running for 10 minutes each time - just to add some realism to the simulation.

We've never interviewed before, so we don't know too much about what actual questions will come up. What we have found though is that these questions help us hone our pitch a lot. Regardless of a YC interview, being able to answer these questions confidently will probably benefit your mission.