25 comments

  • jabiko 5 hours ago ago

    Starting at page 20, the report looks like someone let AI create a HTML page and then just converted it to PDF. There are misplaced "Calendar", "Money Bag" and "Globe" emojis floating above the title of each startup analysis.

    I suspect that nobody, including the authors, ever read this 391 page report.

    • trubetskov 3 hours ago 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.

    • ai_fry_ur_brain 4 hours ago ago

      [dead]

  • palmotea 5 hours ago ago

    Does this include the several stupid "thin wrapper on ChatGPT to 'help' people with depression/ADHD/etc." startups that I recall from about two seconds after ChatGPT came out?

    Basically: "I want to be a founder, I have no expertise and a superficial understanding of the domain but I've got some tech, so here's a non-solution I'm selling as 'the best thing ever for you.'"

    • trubetskov 3 hours ago 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.

    • calvinmorrison 4 hours ago ago

      how about "this is illegal but with we have VC and an app it's now totally OK", see Uber's playbook.

  • w10-1 4 hours ago ago

    Post-mortem's are very useful, though often not welcome.

    I appreciate the top-line summary and the approach looks promising, but I don't have time to sort through the data or details.

    Both are likely common, so don't be disheartened by complaints :)

    • trubetskov 3 hours ago 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 all our thoughts and this is the thing we used to make decisions on Mentalium's strategy.

  • cyanydeez 4 hours ago ago

    The problem with mental health monetization is: it doesn't pay to make people feel better.

    The problem with most of capitalism, is the same. There's just more money to be made from people with problems than solving problems.

    • trubetskov 3 hours ago 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.

  • trubetskov 5 hours ago ago

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    • pavlov 4 hours ago ago

      This post was obviously written by Claude.

      • Apes 4 hours ago ago

        This isn't a very productive statement by any standard.

      • trubetskov 3 hours ago ago

        why?

  • orsenthil 5 hours ago ago

    Shouldn't this be a private dataset?

    • trubetskov 3 hours ago 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".

    • anigbrowl 5 hours ago ago

      Why? OP has assembled it out of public information via company filings etc., and is releasing it as a supplement to a report to the field. It seems like you didn't read the accompanying notes at all.

    • harvey9 4 hours ago ago

      Why?

      • orsenthil 3 hours ago ago

        Mental Health Data.

        • harvey9 3 hours ago ago

          Are you serious? It's data about corporations, not your shrink's notes from your consult.

          • VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago ago

            HIPAA is a real thing. It is to be respected.

            This study appears to be LLM generated so all confidence in it being a) accurate and b) respective of regulations has all gone out the window.

            • harvey9 3 hours ago ago

              I'm not in America but just a guess, HIPAA does not apply to a company's financial filings. LLMs are beside the point here.

            • trubetskov 3 hours ago ago

              why so?

    • timeisapear 5 hours ago ago

      Isn’t this parent comment generated by AI?