Inspiration
On average, one death from suicide happens every 43 seconds. Mental health is the most troubling factor for teenagers, and they never speak about it since they don’t want to be seen as weak or different than anyone else. This problem needs to be solved worldwide, and we created this website to help teens with this issue.
What it does
Emoti helps everyone get through troubling times, connect with others, and figure out how to get through this tough time in their lives. In addition, people can connect with our 24/7 online active therapist so they can have solutions to their problems when they have no other access to help.
How we built it
By leveraging AI tools, GitHub, and technical documentation about activism against suicide and helping mental health, to prototype and refine our help. AI helped us debug, generate ideas, and using open source articles, it guided our design ideas and implementation.
Challenges we ran into
While doing this project, we had a lot of problems with our API key breaking on us, which kept on hindering our performance. Another issue we had was that when using AI resources, it sometimes made problems worse than before we implemented AI.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our main accomplishment is figuring out how our API key was breaking, which was really infuriating us. Another one we had was getting our own AI therapist to work on our website. This was a really big advancement in our website, which took a while.
What we learned
Learning about how bad mental health can affect anyone’s life so drastically was a really big wake-up call for us. The fact that so many people can have such bad thoughts and tell no one they know as an authority figure is such an unsound factor that can ruin people’s lives, or even end them.
What's next for Emoti
We want Emoti to expand with knowledge far greater than what it currently has by using AI, so that one website has all of the knowledge needed to combat bad mental health. Our website could be a giant library of articles, outside resources, and tips on helping others that is constantly expanding.
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