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Just launched an API to detect user mental health passively

sahha.ai

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.

You can't determine someone's spiritual state through a mobile phone. Also, if my kids are any indication, the removal of mobile devices and computers from their lives has greatly increased their focus, maturity, happiness, and discipline. Just a couple of days ago my boys were outside building a fort out of fallen logs that they carried a half a mile themselves, instead of inside raging at other Fortnite gamers.

The answer is not to encourage more use of mobile phones to analyze problems caused by mobile phones.

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!

Well you did build it. I don't get the joke.

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