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Cercle

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The bat signal for your closest friends.

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The bat signal for your closest friends.

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Mental Health

Cercle is conquering the loneliness epidemic by bringing back connections with the people that matter most. Check in with yourself and share your mood with your close friends or your entire Cercle. Take the guesswork out of your friendships, know how they're feeling before that phone call or text. Your friends' mood updates live on your home-screen widget, so you know who needs you before they have to ask. Built after watching a series of close friends live and struggle in silence

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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Messaging•Social Media

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My friend went through extreme depression and didn't speak to us for 10 months. Lack of communication made it hard to know what they need. Countless texts and calls went out, but we never got a response. Months later she finally reached out saying "I wanted to tell you guys what's going on but I didn't have it in me to have a conversation. I just wanted to light my bat signal that I am struggling and have you guys know without needing to explain until I am ready". That's when it hit me. We watch our friends on social media, send a like and pretend it's connection. We avoid conversations and say "maybe they're busy", "what if they aren't in a place to chat", "maybe now isn't a good time to reach out" but in reality we are dressing up avoidance as consideration. WHAT IF WE TOOK THIS CONFUSION AND PRESSURE OFF FRIENDSHIPS AND STILL HAD A WAY TO BUILD CONNECTIONS, AUTHENTICALLY? Cercle allows you to check in on your friends, see their active mood updates in app or through the widget on your phone, and it tells you what your friends need. How users are currently using Cercle: - Long distance couples are able to log and know how the other is doing. They know how the other is feeling so there isn't any miscommunication when they FaceTime. For example, boyfriend is stressed from job hunting and girlfriend had a great day at work. Instead of the girlfriend getting upset over the tone shift, she knows how he's feeling before they even call (and vice versa). - Siblings know how each other is doing, especially when keeping touch is hard and they live apart. They can be there for each other when they light the bat signal. - Friend groups that aren't able to keep up every day but want to know how friends are doing so they can reach out to chat or to help them through something.

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12h ago

Sheeta, the screen that stopped me was the third check-in step, because Want to Isolate is the hardest state to build for and you already named it.

The preference lives in the log, but the delivery surface may not honor it. A low mood still lands on a home screen widget, and the person seeing it is the same friend from your story who sent countless texts. I build AI for clinicians and the rule there is identical: a stated preference about being contacted only counts if the system downstream enforces it, otherwise it is a note nobody acts on.

Does the widget hold or soften an update when someone picks Want to Isolate, or does the mood go out either way?

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3h ago

This is a considered take on a hard problem. A question about the self side rather than the friend side: does a daily mood check-in change how well people come to understand their own patterns over time, or is the log mainly a signal for others?

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2h ago