[overnight5349]

The entire content of this website is six bullet points and three or four sentences. You really need to do a lot better than that. It looks like the cheapest, shadiest, slapped together "I hooked ChatGPT into google calendar" project, same as all the other "AI" projects coming out these days.

You've offered no compelling reason to use this, nor explained what it does or how it can help me except in the vaguest of terms.

It seems to be an effort to game you into being a more productive worker, and not actually helping you live with ADHD.

Additionally, while I very desperately want an AI personal assistant to help me manage my ADHD, there is absolutely no way in hell I'd ever use something that doesn't run on my hardware in my house that I physically control. Such an assistant would know literally everything about me, and that is not something anyone should ever trust to a company.

[fragmede]

> It seems to be an effort to game you into being a more productive worker, and not actually helping you live with ADHD.

Where ADHD leads to problems being productive despite having the intelligence to do the job, and that jobs tend to, y'know, fire you if you're not productive, and you go homeless without money, which you get from having a job, isn't helping ADHD people be productive the same thing?

As far as your trust issues go, that's for each individual to decide. Some people are able to see past their cynicism and derive value from the products companies make.

[overnight5349]

> isn't helping ADHD people be productive the same thing?

Sure, if you believe the meaning of life is working as hard as you possibly can for no benefit until you die.

Real people in the real world have passions, desires, hobbies. Chores, relationships, responsibilities. We have lives. If you've ever met someone with severe ADHD, you'd see that it affects your life deeply and can greatly decrease your quality of life. And that's mostly because of the 'work til you drop' mindset.

> As far as your trust issues go, that's for each individual to decide.

Trusting companies who have over and over done everything they possibly can to turn your trust into money is not really a sane or logical stance to take. Giving enormous detail about your personal life, or confidential work data to a company that blatantly does not respect you or your privacy is not wise.

So to sum up, you're mansplaining my own disability to me and gaslighting me about not trusting openai.

Don't stop now, my 'shitty dudebro' bingo card is nearly full

[wombat-sauce]

> As far as your trust issues go, that's for each individual to decide. Some people are able to see past their cynicism and derive value from the products companies make.

Your attempt at framing consumer protection as trust issues undermine the emotional scope of being a human being. You should seriously evaluate why someone who asks for the right to privacy is being framed in your mind as having a “trust issue.”

AI, in its current iteration as a centralized technology, will encourage future rent-seeking by incumbents and impact those dependent on it. Open access to models and locally running offline AI technology will be critical to its long-term success.

[btilly]

People are more productive when they work with their strengths, instead of trying to address their weaknesses. Read https://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/... for more on that.

In the meantime highly productive people from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Feynman appear to have had ADHD. Do you really think that this app would have made a positive difference in their lives?

[lyapunova]

You only have to look as far as big social media to see proof of the damage that corporate motives can cause on the mental health of average internetizens.

[mattstir]

I'm quite curious about this sentiment because I've seen it more than a few times here on Hackernews.

I have ADHD and have been very successful in my work life so far. I'm on a prescription medication for when my focus is necessary but that seems to be either dismissed or heavily frowned upon here.

Is there a reason why the answer to ADHD seems to be "use AI to do your work" rather than "use the proven medications to allow you to focus"? It just seems strange to me.

[FeepingCreature]

And some companies are able to make products that people actually want to use, and that don't have properties that put off their prospective customers.

When you want my money, and I don't want to give it to you, that's an "issue", but more for you than me.

[jkhdigital]

Yeah I tend to agree, my ADHD is an existential problem only because I have a family to support and it tends to disrupt the flow of income. You know, by getting me to change careers like four times before age 40…