I was chatting with a founder and he said something funny yet also profound:
“When I was going through depression and trying out all these so-called AI mental health apps, I could immediately tell – none of these apps were built by people who had actually experienced any mental health struggles. I just knew.”
Do you have to go through a mental health crisis to be able to build a great mental health app? No, not necessarily.
Does it help when founders go deep inside themselves and build something that solves their own problems, not something that they think would help other people in certain situations? Yes.