Mera Mann | Devpost

Inspiration

In college, we have seen ourselves and our colleagues struggle a lot with stress, anxiety and other ailments which they can't explain. There's still a lot of stigma to talk about it. They also have privacy concerns if they want to talk about it. Considering mental health to be really important in today's age, we have come to realise to build a platform where they could talk, express and get adequate healthcare. We believe in a holistic well being therefore our methods are more about make people better at managing their health before it worsens and becomes out of control.

What it does

Our project aims to cater to mental health needs of individuals. Currently there are not many platforms which provide education, self care, and a holistic approach towards mental healthcare. Our website takes care of all these needs and also has a great ChatBot which gives amazing suggestions to manage one's mental health.

How we built it

We have created a web application which uses a client-server architecture. Technical components: Frontend: ChatBot, React, Redux Backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS Languages: JavaScript, HTML,CSS Chatbot: OpenAI

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we faced during building our code was that of how to build a chatbot. Initially we had went with a custom model made using tensorflow. But during testing we found that users found the chatbot basic and its repsonse generic. Then we went back to the drawing board on how to make the chatbot more interactive. First we thought on increasing the dataset but we couldn't find any. Then we decided to use openai gpt model. Intially we decided to use davinci model but we found that it was more suited towards general chatting. Hence we settled on gpt3.5 turbo which was highly optimised for chating with context saving