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Why mental health startups die: 542 post-mortems(zenodo.org)
1 points by trubetskov 21d ago|0 comments
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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
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Research: Mental health startup graveyard v1.2. 542 dead companies.(mentalium.me)
2 points by trubetskov 1mo ago|1 comments
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
Hi! what are results? Do they differ?
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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.
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
why?
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
why so?
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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".
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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 al
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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.
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by trubetskov 1mo ago
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.
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Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields(mentalium.me)
31 points by trubetskov 1mo ago|24 comments
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Mental health startup graveyard: an analysis of 542 dead companies, 2000–2026(mentalium.me)
3 points by trubetskov 2mo ago|0 comments