- Those images on the blogs look potentially AI Generated, which I'm personally turned off by. Others may vary.
- The first blog (by you?) is _very_ long, also "ADHD as Superpower" is somewhat of a trope that I, and others I've spoken with, aren't happy to have as a bullet point of why ADHD isn't the end of the world.
- Anyway, clicked on the "Procrastination" mood button and oh sweet lord there are so many buttons on this page and why do they have "likes" counted in the corner?
- The web developer in me admires the automatic resizing blocks. The user in me doesn't like that the buttons jump around as I click on them. E.g. I clicked on "breath loop" and the interface totally changed an I wasn't actually sure how to get back to where I was (Figured it out: Musical Stimulation), additionally I know there _was_ a button below breath loop but its moved and I forgot which one it was. I'd suggest categorizing the buttons and either hiding them in drawers or collapsible sections so there aren't quite so many immediately visible. And then I'd suggest keeping the controls for each technique in the same place on the screen and just highlight which technique is selected from the buttons, instead of dynamically moving the controls around. On any user interface I interact with regularly I don't even see or read them much anymore because I just know where the buttons I want to interact with are. On this page the buttons are constantly moving around, and I'm only on desktop, I'm sure its different on a phone but I'm almost scared to look (I looked, its good, but the constantly changing height of the scrollbar is a pet peeve of mine, so its functional, I just don't like it). If you don't want to move the controls to a consistent spot, I'd suggest giving the movement a bit of an animation (maybe with an option to disable it?) so people can at least get a feel for what is happening when they click a button instead of an instantaneous change that is impossible to track with their eyeballs.
- I don't love the "Atmosphere" button being in the bottom middle where text/images appear from the content, feels messy.
jaysonelliot · 1h ago
The AI generated images were an immediate turn-off to me as well. Whatever one thinks of the aesthetics, they're a huge signal that I'm looking at a product that's focused on monetizing me.
The overall design is unfocused and cluttered, just the exact thing I don't need as someone with ADHD.
I don't think I'd use this.
nerdjon · 1h ago
Not only that, but it would also raise significant concerns about how any of the recommendations, treatments, blog posts, etc are made. Like are the different people for those blog posts real people?
This is particularly concerning for a tool like this, you already took shortcuts on images why should we expect anything less for the rest of the app? Has anyone that knows anything about ADHD actually ever looked at anything this app is saying?
digitalions · 44m ago
The blog is written by real people. So do the techniques. I'm just a bad designer so I decided to generate the pictures. But actually I have diagnosed ADHD myself and all the techniques are all I've collected all my life.
bubblemoth · 18m ago
I opened the first blog post and I’m fairly certain most of this post is generated by AI.
I’m not trying to be mean, but it makes it difficult to trust any content on this site.
drakythe · 20m ago
Be that as it may, it _does_ still raise questions about the content and sources. If you're a bad designer (I'm a pretty terrible artist/designer myself) then I urge you to source your images from someplace ethical. Try unsplash, or google free stock images, or go on fiverr and pay an artist who won't use AI (if you can find one? I haven't tried to user fiverr in a while)
digitalions · 47m ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm a bad UI designer. But I've already found one and will make the UI better soon!
npteljes · 46m ago
One of the file name is "1750927062274_ChatGPT Image Jun 26, 2025, 11_33_18 AM (1)" - so yes, +1 for AI.
digitalions · 43m ago
I'm just a bad designer so I decided to generate the images. :)
jedimastert · 23m ago
I concur on the AI generated images. There is frankly significant overlap between folks who struggle with ADHD and folks who are direct harmed or displaced by the use of AI generated images, I think you would be better off without images at all.
rockemsockem · 18m ago
GTFO
rockemsockem · 19m ago
To add some variety, I think the images look fine.
Idk wtf is wrong with these people whining about AI generated images.
tsavo · 1m ago
A repost from three months ago to re-ignite engagement.
justsomehnguy · 8m ago
> I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test
Remeber kids! Self-medication with the Voight-Kampff test is dangerous and can lead to the serious consequences including , but not limited to:
depression
personality disorders
suicide thoughts
obsession with a wooden minutae
giant meta-corporations hunting for you
overall quality of life decrease, including death
Please consult a doctor before using the test!
(somehow the last words of the post title gave me this reaction)
digitalions · 4h ago
Hi HN! I've built ADHD Help, a simple yet powerful web app designed to help manage common ADHD-related states like anxiety, procrastination, irritability, overwhelm, hyperactivity, and distraction.
The app offers:
Interactive Coping Techniques: Immediate guided steps for calming anxiety, managing procrastination, and handling emotional overwhelm using CBT, DBT, and mindfulness methods.
Ambient Sound Mixer: Customize and layer soothing background noises (nature, white noise, café sounds) to enhance focus or relaxation.
Quick ADHD Self-Test: A quick screening to help identify ADHD symptoms.
Curated Blog: Practical articles, personal insights, and evidence-based advice on living better with ADHD.
Is the self test for people who know they have ADHD? Because there was no option for what I’m currently feeling.
digitalions · 42m ago
I have ADHD myself. I do a lot of my service based on my experience and the experience of others with ADHD.
b0a04gl · 1h ago
ui feels too stateful per interaction, every click shifts layout, adds/remove elements, resets focus. that's expensive for working memory esp if im mid-task. layout stability might need to be treated like a cognitive affordance, otherwise good going smooth
largehotcoffee · 40m ago
Spend one minute "embracing imperfection"...
MichealCodes · 47m ago
Awesome tool, thanks for caring about the well-being of others!
digitalions · 39m ago
Thank you!
OccamsMirror · 1h ago
You know, a lot of ADHD will be reading this at night.
Why no dark mode?
shironandonon_ · 1h ago
have you tried Dark Mode in a browser like Brave?
I use that on mobile so the referenced website, HN, and 99.9% of the web is in dark mode by default.
WarOnPrivacy · 41m ago
> Dark Mode in a browser like Brave ... and 99.9% of the web is in dark mode by default.
I turned on Appearance -> Brave Colors = Dark. That darkened the browser components but not web pages, inc HN.
RankingMember · 41m ago
I concur with the other comments about AI-generated content, so let me hit you with some positive:
I like the idea, and I like that the website gets right down to business with the "How are you feeling?" at the very top. It reminds me a bit of https://youfeellikeshit.com/ (which I mean as a good thing). You might actually want to crib a little bit of that site's minimalism. I also like that you're not asking for the user to signup right off the bat.
digitalions · 36m ago
Thank you. I didn't even realize so many people wouldn't like these pictures. I think they really fit the articles.
rockemsockem · 16m ago
Personally I think these people are over-vocal, insane, and unlikely to pay you in the first place.
I see no problem with AI generated pictures, but there's a really loud minority who find them ethnically untenable
RankingMember · 30m ago
It's not that they don't fit, it's that AI-generated images are commonly used on spam/scam sites, and thus have that inauthentic/low-effort stink to them. It casts a shadow on the rest of site that says "is any of this authentic or am I reading AI slop?". You might do better to have someone do some scribbles for you on fiverr.com imo.
annoyingnoob · 52m ago
I used it as a distraction from something I need to accomplish.
Communitivity · 4h ago
Great idea, and I'm looking forward to trying this out!
Each person with ADHD is affected a little differently, based on anecdotal evidence from family and friends. What are the available customization options?
digitalions · 3h ago
Thank you! For now, there are customization options only for background sounds. But in the future there will be an intelligent system for selecting self-help techniques. And you can take a short test to find out your current state.
captchas · 1h ago
I would like app developers to please stop trying to monetize ADHD. This one doesn't seem as predatory and snake oil as most of the others, but, kindly refrain. Our neurodevelopmental condition is not your cash cow.
mh- · 1h ago
As someone in their 40s with ADHD, I'll offer a counterpoint.
I'm happy for people to try to make a business of this if the tools are helpful.
I've had a successful career, so I obviously had to develop my own strategies for managing it. But I'd be very happy if my kids didn't have to spend 20 years figuring it out for themselves. Monetize away.
impendia · 58m ago
Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle. I'd be happy to pay a modest bit of money to buy a simple app, and see if it helps -- but I'm very reluctant to sign up for a subscription.
Perhaps ironically, the less the app claims to do, the more likely I am to be interested.
I've only signed up for a paid mental health app subscription once -- and that was an app designed by a well-known psychologist with both an M.D. and a Ph.D., and even then only after reading his book.
mystified5016 · 40m ago
Yes, exactly. A one-time purchase is great because ADHDers can impulse buy it and be done. A subscription is an extra mental burden I don't want or need.
al_borland · 1h ago
Strategies can be shared for free as well.
Ryder Carroll is a good example. He created the bullet journal through trial and error to manage his own ADHD. He shared it for free. While he did write a book and partnered with a company to design a notebook (due to popular demand), he still gives away everything someone needs for free, and will be the first one to tell people you don’t need a special notebook.
digitalions · 39m ago
I have ADHD myself. Honestly, I'd like to make a service that will help everyone. To do that, I need money. I think that 5 dollars a month is not so much nowadays.
spinlock_ · 23m ago
But why would it need to be subscription based?
rockemsockem · 17m ago
Presumably the person is doing work on it on an ongoing basis..... This isn't that hard to figure out
parpfish · 35m ago
i'm less worried about people monetizing it than I am about people pushing a lot of bad self-diagnosis memes based on nonsense criteria ("if you sleep with your arms in this pose, you have ADHD (and maybe autism)!") or just describing completely typical events as a meaningful symptom ("if you ever procrastinate, you might have ADHD")
npteljes · 41m ago
Would you like to elaborate why you feel this way?
theonething · 4m ago
I don't understand this sentiment.
Sure, there might be people out there selling snakeoil, but that's the case for every domain. Does that mean we nobody should try to make apps to solve domain problems at all? Of course not.
So you're asking everyone to stop monetizing ADHD. So the two alternatives are make the apps for free or don't make them at all. The former is not realistic or sustainable and later gives up potential upside.
I mean, do you think all ADHD apps will just be bad and are just people trying rip off ADHDers?
I think a more reasonable premise is yes, just in every domain, there will be snake oil sellers unfortunately and it's up to the consumer to watch out for those. But there will also be genuine people who are trying to solve this problem and that will potentially give people a lot of value for the money they pay for it.
- Neat.
- Those images on the blogs look potentially AI Generated, which I'm personally turned off by. Others may vary.
- The first blog (by you?) is _very_ long, also "ADHD as Superpower" is somewhat of a trope that I, and others I've spoken with, aren't happy to have as a bullet point of why ADHD isn't the end of the world.
- Anyway, clicked on the "Procrastination" mood button and oh sweet lord there are so many buttons on this page and why do they have "likes" counted in the corner?
- The web developer in me admires the automatic resizing blocks. The user in me doesn't like that the buttons jump around as I click on them. E.g. I clicked on "breath loop" and the interface totally changed an I wasn't actually sure how to get back to where I was (Figured it out: Musical Stimulation), additionally I know there _was_ a button below breath loop but its moved and I forgot which one it was. I'd suggest categorizing the buttons and either hiding them in drawers or collapsible sections so there aren't quite so many immediately visible. And then I'd suggest keeping the controls for each technique in the same place on the screen and just highlight which technique is selected from the buttons, instead of dynamically moving the controls around. On any user interface I interact with regularly I don't even see or read them much anymore because I just know where the buttons I want to interact with are. On this page the buttons are constantly moving around, and I'm only on desktop, I'm sure its different on a phone but I'm almost scared to look (I looked, its good, but the constantly changing height of the scrollbar is a pet peeve of mine, so its functional, I just don't like it). If you don't want to move the controls to a consistent spot, I'd suggest giving the movement a bit of an animation (maybe with an option to disable it?) so people can at least get a feel for what is happening when they click a button instead of an instantaneous change that is impossible to track with their eyeballs.
- I don't love the "Atmosphere" button being in the bottom middle where text/images appear from the content, feels messy.
The overall design is unfocused and cluttered, just the exact thing I don't need as someone with ADHD.
I don't think I'd use this.
This is particularly concerning for a tool like this, you already took shortcuts on images why should we expect anything less for the rest of the app? Has anyone that knows anything about ADHD actually ever looked at anything this app is saying?
I’m not trying to be mean, but it makes it difficult to trust any content on this site.
Idk wtf is wrong with these people whining about AI generated images.
Remeber kids! Self-medication with the Voight-Kampff test is dangerous and can lead to the serious consequences including , but not limited to:
depression personality disorders suicide thoughts obsession with a wooden minutae giant meta-corporations hunting for you overall quality of life decrease, including death
Please consult a doctor before using the test!
(somehow the last words of the post title gave me this reaction)
The app offers:
Interactive Coping Techniques: Immediate guided steps for calming anxiety, managing procrastination, and handling emotional overwhelm using CBT, DBT, and mindfulness methods.
Ambient Sound Mixer: Customize and layer soothing background noises (nature, white noise, café sounds) to enhance focus or relaxation.
Quick ADHD Self-Test: A quick screening to help identify ADHD symptoms.
Curated Blog: Practical articles, personal insights, and evidence-based advice on living better with ADHD.
Would love your feedback and thoughts!
Check it out here: https://adhdhelp.app
Why no dark mode?
I use that on mobile so the referenced website, HN, and 99.9% of the web is in dark mode by default.
I turned on Appearance -> Brave Colors = Dark. That darkened the browser components but not web pages, inc HN.
I like the idea, and I like that the website gets right down to business with the "How are you feeling?" at the very top. It reminds me a bit of https://youfeellikeshit.com/ (which I mean as a good thing). You might actually want to crib a little bit of that site's minimalism. I also like that you're not asking for the user to signup right off the bat.
I see no problem with AI generated pictures, but there's a really loud minority who find them ethnically untenable
Each person with ADHD is affected a little differently, based on anecdotal evidence from family and friends. What are the available customization options?
I'm happy for people to try to make a business of this if the tools are helpful.
I've had a successful career, so I obviously had to develop my own strategies for managing it. But I'd be very happy if my kids didn't have to spend 20 years figuring it out for themselves. Monetize away.
Perhaps ironically, the less the app claims to do, the more likely I am to be interested.
I've only signed up for a paid mental health app subscription once -- and that was an app designed by a well-known psychologist with both an M.D. and a Ph.D., and even then only after reading his book.
Ryder Carroll is a good example. He created the bullet journal through trial and error to manage his own ADHD. He shared it for free. While he did write a book and partnered with a company to design a notebook (due to popular demand), he still gives away everything someone needs for free, and will be the first one to tell people you don’t need a special notebook.
Sure, there might be people out there selling snakeoil, but that's the case for every domain. Does that mean we nobody should try to make apps to solve domain problems at all? Of course not.
So you're asking everyone to stop monetizing ADHD. So the two alternatives are make the apps for free or don't make them at all. The former is not realistic or sustainable and later gives up potential upside.
I mean, do you think all ADHD apps will just be bad and are just people trying rip off ADHDers?
I think a more reasonable premise is yes, just in every domain, there will be snake oil sellers unfortunately and it's up to the consumer to watch out for those. But there will also be genuine people who are trying to solve this problem and that will potentially give people a lot of value for the money they pay for it.