MindBee Journal

Inspiration

Therapy is often out of reach for those who are not covered by insurance or cannot afford it. Also, these service often fall short in the times when they might be needed most due to the limitation that appointments need to be made ahead of time. My goal was to disrupt these limitations by engineering an ai therapist & wellness app.

What it does

MindBee Journal offers both free and paid services. The base app is a mental wellness journal that, upon request, offers tailored suggestions based on the selected journal entry. The paid service is an on-demand ai therapist chatbot, priced fairly at $1 per session.

How I built it

I built this app using a variety of tools and microservices. The framework I used was React/Nextjs, and the entire app is built with “serverless” functions. For the database and Auth I used Firebase, allowing for seamless cloud storage of data, auto-logins with either Gmail or a verification link, and real-time querying. For payments I used the Stripe SDK, securely transacting payments via Apple Pay, Credit, Debit, or CashApp. The ai features of the app are powered by OpenAi’s ChatGPT-3.5 LLM. Lastly, the app is hosted on Vercel.

Challenges I ran into

Auth always has it’s challenges, especially as the app grows and state management gets more tricky.

Accomplishments that I’m proud of

This was the largest project I have ever finished in less than 24 hours. Engineering secure Auth, cloud-based data management, payments, and ai features is not an easy task, so I’m proud that I got it done and it came out beautiful!

What I learned

My biggest takeaway from this Hackathon was better understanding what gets me “in the zone”. This was my first in-person hackathon, and being physically around competitors really pushed me to lock in and take on a project like this one.