Our app Pacifica, http://thinkpacifica.com, is built on Ionic 1. It is currently showcased on both the Ionic and Cordova websites and we've see a fair amount of success with over a million registered users since launching last year.
Pacifica Labs Inc. | Lead Frontend Developer | SF, Remote
Pacifica Labs, a 500 Startups company, is the fastest growing stress and anxiety management platform in the world. Having launched January 2015, over 785k people have signed up to use our mobile applications. Come help us change the way people think about mental health.
Responsibilities:
Take over day-to-day development and architecture of hybrid mobile and web applications that help hundreds of thousands of people manage stress, anxiety and depression. Must be proficient in HTML and Javascript with an emphasis on AngularJS. Knowledge of front-end architectures (MVC, MVP, MVVC) is a must.
Bucardo does this and the setup it a lot easier than most tools. I'm currently using it to migrate a live postgres database to another location but it can perform ETL as well.
EDIT: doesn't really address your point b) however.
Sorry for the obligatory, somewhat self-serving post. Our startup, Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com), focuses on a few tools that help people identify these cognitive distortions. Specifically, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy defines a cycle relating how your thoughts affect your feelings, behaviors, and physical wellbeing (as a fully connected bidirectional graph). Understanding how your thoughts are distorted can better prepare you for the next time they crop up, helping you step outside this cycle. In many cases CBT has been shown to be as effective as psychiatric drugs in the short term, and even more effective in the long term as it helps people focus on the source of their anxieties. We're trying to take these same tools, proven in clinical practices all over the world, and apply them to a much broader audience.
What I learned from CBT is that some thoughts are like factories, they produce negative emotions (anxiety, depression, anger, etc). Unless these thoughts are corrected, they will continue to produce negative emotions and these negative emotions will continue to sabotage our life.
In turn, a negative emotion can be a thought factory, thus making a vicious circle. Distorted thought -> negative emotion -> more distorted thoughts. This cycle can be broken by rectifying the distorted thoughts (with cognitive restructuring) or by calming emotions (for example, with meditation or medication).
Put the problem the other way around and you will have a wonderful project. Just saying.
Extreme metacognition, like getting yourself out-of-trouble? Given anybody in front of problem tailored for them to fail, they will fail. How much people are not good citizen? More or less than crazy people? Both kind of people harm themselfs. We call only one “crazy”. We call crazy people “crazy” because we don't know how to let them be back and explain in plain text what's harming them.
People study crazy people not only because it's “easy” to extract knowledge and models, but because it's the “good thing”.
You're right. We are not a substitute for therapy in cases like this. Pacifica works very well for people with mild to moderate anxiety, but in the more extreme cases (e.g. OCD, PTSD), it is necessary to be working with a professional. But a lot of people experience anxiety on a daily basis while maintaing a capability for self analysis.
Great to see a startup in the mental health sphere. There are a lot of people who could really use the tools that CBT provides. Best of luck to you guys!
Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com) is built on Ionic. We're also featured in iTunes right now, just a note that it's very possible to build beautiful hybrid applications. While the company isn't a success quite yet, we've been rejected from YC twice as well.
I apologize if this sounds a bit self-serving, but I use Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com), an app that we are building, in order to track what affects my sleep. I've struggled with insomnia for a while so understanding how things like caffeine or lack of exercise affect it has been useful. And then I'll also use our progressive muscle relaxation exercise when trying to fall asleep. The irony is not lost on me that building a company around an anxiety app is also creating additional anxiety in my life...
Our app Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com) is built with Cordova and the Ionic Framework. It's far from a crappy experience. I think that too often people pick these frameworks and assume that it's a substitute for good design. You still need to put in the effort.
There's also the fact that the bar is a bit lower to get an app finished and released with something like Ionic. So you might see more apps that aren't quite up to par, but that doesn't mean that it isn't possible to create something beautiful with them.
I gave your app a try. I think its fairly good. It was a -bit- choppy when clicking on sign up, but once signed in, I couldn't tell it apart from a native app. The 'swipe to move to next screen' was pretty good too.
I actually wrote an article for Gamasutra about this when they were first launching: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaleBeermann/20090327/83618/G.... Still, when I first tried it in their demo booth I was really impressed. But the data center was only 60 miles away. As soon as you get too far from the data center, there are actual physical limitations of being able to accomplish this effectively.
I think "manic" describes things well. The highs are very high and the lows are very low. And if you're just floating along in the middle, you're always wanting more. It's one of the reasons trying to do this on your own is so hard. Ideally when you're having an off day your cofounder is there to pick you back up. In this sense, being in sync with your cofounder isn't always a good thing.
On any given day, it's difficult to manage everything. When you have customer service, outreach, growth, and development to do, something gets dropped. There's never quite enough time.
Then there's the difficulty in taking time off. When you try to make time for other parts of your life, you're always looking at the things that you didn't get to and thinking about when you're going to do them. I don't go to as many happy hours as I used to; I certainly don't organize them. I'm not playing volleyball right now. I try to workout, but it's hard to tear yourself away from the computer when it'll just take another hour to finish your current task. It affects your conversations, your relationships, your health, everything. It is consuming.
On any given weekday, I work at least 10 hours. Generally it's about 12-14. I make sure to take a night or two off to spend time with my fiancee. On the weekend, I try to fit in time with her as well but I'll still get in at least 4 hours each day, sometimes more like 8.
I get stressed about money a lot. We're bootstrapped so not everyone is in this situations. In any case, everything is framed in terms of how many months we have left. That 12 dollar sandwich? That's a couple days of server time. An expensive car repair? That's a whole month of our runway.
And yet, it's the most rewarding thing you can ever do. You get to build something from nothing. People use it. They talk to you about it. You are making the decisions. And it isn't going to last forever. It'll last for a long time, but it'll get better. But most importantly, I wake up every morning without an alarm and am eager to get back to work.
I can attest to this. it's like a roller coaster. for me the lows are when nothing happens. it feels like eternity. the highs are when you make sales and everything goes well. it's something I am working on, trying to separate emotion from the business like a robot would. It's expectation management.
Would you be able to send an email to info (at) thinkpacifica (dot) com from the email address you created the account with. If you could let us know which device you're on, we'll check it out as soon as we can. Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
