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Thank you for spending time to write. The idea is moreso to have everyday people to talk with each other whereas with volunteer based model/free therapy model you cannot scale, the use-case is purely medical and people often don't take the plunge.

My assumption is that, if you are aware that the other person who you are talking is no different than you and is not trained person you are more likely to share.

The idea is not to have counseling based model. Further Talk therapy does not require professional training. Basically you can talk to anyone. I am moreso proposing this to those set of people who really find it to hard to make friends online or in-their social circles, or want to share something very deep secret about them which they cannot tell it to anyone expect a stranger. This like a having dedicated friend with whom you can talk and for sure the friend will get paid to talk with you.

Ask HN: Will you pay to have a anonymous friend to talk with?

I was wondering what if there was a service which is based on talk therapy and where you can have a virtual friend who is a real person and can be based on your preferences like gender, hobbies likeability, language, region and many such options. There is no restriction as such to what you can talk, fully secured & end-to-end encrypted with decentralized mode of operations (server only...

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