I’m a dev in recovery. When I looked for addiction recovery apps, I realized the user isn’t the customer, they are the product.
Most “free” recovery apps literally sell your addiction data. If you are recovering from gambling, they can sell your behavioral profile back to gambling networks. If you are recovering from alcohol, they sell your data to advertisers that then advertise alcohol to you.
I built LiftMind
It’s an AI-driven addiction recovery strategist and journaling app, but I architected it to be hostile to surveillance. It is still in beta, and I need a gut check from this community on the setup:
Monero First: I accept XMR Monero so the payment layer is as anonymous as the auth layer.
No Personal Info: I don’t ask for an email, name, or phone number. You reg with just a username and password. If I look at the DB, I can’t tell who is who.
Blind AI Proxy: I use an external LLM (Gemini) for the intelligence, but I treat it like a calculator, not a database. Your ip, username or any other data is never sent to gemini, only the data required for pattern recognition is sent. Google only sees a request coming from my server IP, but they have no way to link it to “You”.
My Question: Since I don’t collect the PII to begin with, is this “Blind Proxy + No KYC” model is sufficient for high-threat models?
What will be your customer acquisition channels?
Have you validated that some customers actually think that it’s important that their data is not resold?
Well i have been shadowbanned / banned on almost all major platforms so far, such as twitter and reddit. Currently i have given my close friends free access to the AI features to test and improve it before any major marketing if the time for that comes.
Those might not be good channels anyway.
What about rehab centers and other companies in the industry? Could they talk about your product to their users while you give them a referral fee (unique discount code like what you see for Youtube video sponsors)?
Very good idea! However for now as i am still testing it im not comfortable selling it to bigger companies yet.