christalwang

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by christalwang 8mo ago
we love blunt and critical, it's why these forums are so important for us. totally hear you on these, and some other folks here have mentioned similar comments. we'll be looking at our landing page further over the next week! than
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by christalwang 8mo ago
thanks for this feedback - curious what current assistive technologies you use right now? totally agree on complementing our challenges, and there are definitely a lot of apps that do pieces of it (we have some of these features on our road
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Some really good stuff in here. - on testimonials. We have some early ones here https://testimonial.to/indy/all and a bunch of video ones that include the good and the bad (but not shared for privacy). i do like the i
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Appreciate this!
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by christalwang 8mo ago
It's free!
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Glad you found the system that works for you! Not an easy feat and not many folks have gotten there. And thanks for sharing your exact system, no doubt it'll help people here. The doodles you're seeing is probably for our other p
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by christalwang 8mo ago
The app is for 18+ only, currently! (but we do have a coaching program specifically built for teens between 13-17 y/o if you're interested in the future!)
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Fair, feedback heard from multiple people here on: being more direct, concrete, credible. I'll take this back for the next iteration of the landing page!
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by christalwang 8mo ago
I'm sorry you had a poor experience! 2022 was the year I got diagnosed and the app definitely wasn't nearly as good as it is now, and I'm sorry you went through those bugs. But more importantly, I'm sorry about the exper
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Hahaha, I'm a millennial and that still resonates with me, so I get it. I think within every community there's always a really big span and hopefully our new product experience can be helpful to a subset of that span! With the AI
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Appreciate the thought behind this comment, and the willingness to help with the questions we asked! We actually just came out of beta last week, so the data is skewed. Beta users have really high usage & retention rates (probably due t
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Thanks, appreciate you! Agree that some folks here likely have put together their own systems too, so I was also hoping to get some inspiration from what folks have done and what's working for them! And I also know this group will be t
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Nice, let us know how that goes.
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by christalwang 8mo ago
lol
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by christalwang 8mo ago
And just to add, I also have the justice sensitivity! Because of that, even our other service (ADHD coaching) has all the prices VERY clearly on the home page. It includes the monthly price in big font and a clear summary of what's inc
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by christalwang 8mo ago
A few things top of mind: 1) A big differentiation is the guidance. Indy is based on science-backed frameworks and exercises that set the foundation for and fuel the main scaffolding interactions. For example, by going through the lifeline
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by christalwang 8mo ago
I just wanted to clarify, this app is COMPLETELY FREE. There is no cost. The cost you're seeing is for our other product that includes live body doubling (co-working) sessions that are guided by our ADHD coaches. I think I might remove
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by christalwang 8mo ago
I totally hear you that there are so many products in the market that only work for the person who designed them. We designed this with hundreds of beta users (I had 5-6 deep calls per day for at least a month) and it's based off of ou
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by christalwang 8mo ago
sorry that it hasn't been done yet! we generally attend to these pretty quickly. If you sent it to support, it may have been buried. I can look into it though. Can you send an email to privacy@shimmer.care?
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by christalwang 8mo ago
For now, here's the app store links if you want to access it from your laptop! for apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/indy-your-adhd-copilot/id67543... for google: https://play.google.com&#x
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Good point, we didn't consider that people would want to browse the app store from their laptop. We'll look into this today!
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Perhaps try to go directly into the app store, I think that copy and the screenshots is a lot more straight forward. Our care team has skewed the landing page to be a bit more of "show the benefit" rather than the functionality (s
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by christalwang 8mo ago
Glad to hear you've built a system that works for you! We've also heard from a lot of our beta users that they've tried to cobble together something similar, and a lot of their feedback and ideas is what we used to build this
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by christalwang 8mo ago
There's a little button inside the profile page to discover our ADHD coaching service (1:1 coaching with one of our 50+ expert ADHD coaches). Right now we don't push it explicitly but have already seen folks explore it. Indy is me
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by christalwang 8mo ago
A few main differences: 1) it moves you towards things that matter to you. E.g. not open prompts but helping you break down each week and day to move you closer to your future events you envision; 2) it uses science-back methods (like COM-B
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by christalwang 8mo ago
No, it's 100% free! www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect (or search "ADHD Indy" on app store) You might be heading to our community service on our main website, which is a different one (live body doubling, etc.)
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Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains(shimmer.care)
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by christalwang 2y ago
Good luck on your diagnosis. How is that like in Norway?
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by christalwang 2y ago
Yes, ADHD coaching has been studied and outcomes have been proven. Experts like Russell Barkley also recommend it. The challenge isn't coaching as a modality, but rather the sparseness in quality across the whole coaching field since i
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by christalwang 2y ago
Yes, 100%. A lot of the design decisions are subtle but solve a pain point and make things easier and more delightful to use. We need every little bit of help to make sure we show up to and work through these sessions. I've also used n

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