Launched this week
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
the resources-after-continuous-low-mood feature is a good answer to a related problem, but I think it's solving the person's side of this rather than the friend group's side. my question was more about whether the friends themselves start treating a long-running "struggling" status as background noise after week three, not whether the logger gets offered help - those feel like two separate things worth designing for separately. is that friend-fatigue angle something you're tracking too, or mostly focused on the person doing the logging for now?
People almost never say they're struggling, they just go quiet. Having your closest circle's state show up on your home screen before the phone call, without anyone having to perform okay-ness, matches exactly what I've seen after years of running group retreats. Loneliness spreads in silence long before anyone names it. Rooting for this one.
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@alex_gidirim Thank you so much Alex. Hope you and your Cercle enjoy this!
The mood sharing concept is really thoughtful, especially the home screen widget idea. One thing that might help would be letting users customize how often they get pinged about friends who are struggling, maybe with a quiet hours setting so it doesn't feel overwhelming or guilt-inducing when you're unavailable. Could make a big difference for people prone to burnout from constant emotional labor.
Would you consider making available on Android as well? :)
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@satchmo_saunders soon! :)
Great idea! Wish it was on Android too.
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@rich_sun working on it soon :)
Love that the mood lives on a home screen widget, so support becomes proactive instead of waiting for someone to find the words to ask for it.
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@ilko_kacharov exactly! thank you for your support!