mimo | Devpost

Home Page UI
Journal UI

Inspiration

Along with academic stresses, college students also face their own personal challenges. Adolescents and young adults are most vulnerable to trauma and negative experiences disrupting their brain development. With the average age range of college students being 17-24 years old, there is a prevalent rise in mental health issues.

From our own past experiences as college undergraduates, we have had trouble accessing mental health services, and have found ourselves using other therapy alternatives in stress relief such as journaling, capturing everyday photos, and recording voice memos. We believe that we can combine these forms of stress relief in a singular platform to provide individuals more mediums of expression when it comes to tracking their own mental health.

This app functions as a source of therapy for college students who may not have access to professional help. We offer a safe space to journal and facilitate your own mental health journey. Starting therapy can be difficult. But caring for your needs is important. Consider this the first step towards providing care for yourself.

What it does

We provide both a website filled with resources about different mental health concerns and an online web app that allows a user to log daily thoughts, through text, photo, and voice format to track their own mental health journey.

How we built it

We utilized MongoDB Atlas to store daily journal entries. We built our back-end using Node.js, and our front-end using HTML and CSS. First we began with our home page in which we built additional pages.

Challenges we ran into

One of the main challenges we ran into was building the database with MongoDB. With Node.js, it took us some time to create and implement a working database that would hold the journal entries. It was also our first time working with MongoDB so we had to resolve our website not properly sending over the data.

What's next for mimo

We hope to continue building out our journaling functionality to provide audio and image uploading. Because our app is built upon intentions of social good, we want to test the usability of our app amongst college students, and make necessary adjustments to support their needs. Some of these adjustments would include providing an optimal interface and tailoring the resources that we provide.