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This is an updated version of our research on 542 dead mental health startups. We took the feedback from the dataset thread and reworked the report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172079

Update: took the feedback here and reworked the report. Emojis fixed, filler text cut, dataset linked from inside the report. Same 542 companies, same numbers.

https://mentalium.me/en/research/mental-health-startup-grave...

Hi! what are results? Do they differ?

not in every case. i think that we are making a very helpful tool - Mentalium - Voice CBT Diary. I made it for myself and i undrestand the problemts it solves really really good.

why?

why so?

why should it be so? we collected it from open sources and analised very carefully to put all the markers. so i think there is no law that can say "make it private".

We did this research for ourselves and started with "by-hand" inspection of every dead startup we could find. and i can say we found almost every. so you can spend no time reading every story and read only summary - it contains all our thoughts and this is the thing we used to make decisions on Mentalium's strategy.

i would say yes it does. such startups have no future. the case of one of the most famous ai-therapy-replacers Woebot proved this by its bancrupcy and $100M+ investment burnt.

You suspect wrong. We did this report for ourselves to correct the strategy and decided to make it public. All data is accurately checked, all numbers and maths can be easily checked by yourself.