Steps

A few weeks back, Rikke & Fabian came by my office to show me this thing they where working on: Steps. An app that, by completing small challenges, helps people overcome social anxiety. It's been absolutely heartwarming to see these two amazing people bring this little tool into the world. It is everything I love about tech; genuinely useful, approachable, humorous and good natured. Give them all the likes and shares you can on their launch day and together we can take the first step to help people overcome social anxiety ❤️

Thanks for the hunt @flarup! And hello everybody! We’re more than excited to be launching on PH today 🚀 Let’s introduce you to Steps. Steps is an app helping you overcome social anxiety using exposure therapy. Unfortunately social anxiety is a highly underrated mental health issue, too seldomly addressed in society leading to a lack of awareness. But also for the ones who are aware of their mental health issues, can be hard to get treatment. Doing things you are afraid of to overcome fear, is a known therapy method called exposure therapy. And it’s proven to be the most efficient way to overcome social anxiety. The app offers you a variety of challenges in curated sets, such creating friendships and handling rejection. Steps is built with the vision to make mental health care accessible and help people overcome social anxiety. You can read more about Steps and future plans here: https://medium.com/steps/launchi... Can’t wait to hear your thoughts and feedback, we’ll be here to answer questions all day! 👋 Fabian & Rikke

Android app planned ?

Congratulation for your launch! What i love about this is all in your vision: "make mental health care accessible and help people overcome social anxiety". It is surprising how little has been done to leverage technology and good design when it comes to mental health. Actually, what happens is usually the opposite: technology driving anxiety and stress. But it doesn't have to be like this. Our phones are in many ways our little personal helpers in our pocket. They are personal in ways other technologies cannot be. They know many things about us, even more than our family or friends. The ability to use all this power to help us is something that requires thoughtful design and a strong passion for the problem at hand. Looking at your app I feel that's exactly what you have. A few questions: - What's next for steps? where do you see this going after "challenges"? - Who has been using it so far? do you have any findings already about the improvements it generates? - How does it fit with the "established" best practices and the support of a therapist? good luck!

The most humble but talented team. Been part of the beta and love it! How do you plan to build on the categories of challenges? Can see obvious opportunities for things like dating.

Your Target Audience: Almost Every thing that lives on earth. And now, Mars too :) Sucha solution to a pain point like this must have come from within. This should be the case with you two @fabianehlert @rikkekoblauch

Awesome idea. I struggle with a lot of this stuff, but I'm happy the challenges vary between achievable and downright terrifying. I've already managed to check-off one thing this morning, and it felt good. What are your plans for more challenges? Also; is there a way to get the general sentiment of a challenge? I'd be cool to know if a few thousand other people are trying to buy coffee for strangers and sharing their successes (or failures).