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Dave Blakey

Panda - We're on a mission to democratize mental health care

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Food, exercise and sleep has a significant impact on your physical health. Mental health works the same way, but has limited proactive options. Panda is the gym for your emotional well-being, with practical and proven proactive options for mental fitness.

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Alon Lits
Maker
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🐼 Hey Product Hunt! It's World Mental Health Day today, and we're thrilled to introduce Panda to the community. Our team has poured heart and soul into this over the past 2 years, bringing you a platform that proactively fosters your mental health and emotional fitness. Reactive care in mental health just isn't scalable or affordable. Panda's vision? Be the gym for your mind - a space where you can exercise emotional well-being, no matter where you stand in your journey. 🌟 Key Features: - Digital group sessions - Dive into the Forest: live, interactive digital group sessions helmed by mental health pros, all day. - Understand yourself - Engage with assessments, gain deep insights into your well-being, and embark on your tailored journey. - Find your community - From anxiety and eating disorders to parenting, work stress, mindfulness, and beyond, Panda has your back. 🐼 Why Panda? - We're flipping the script on mental health. Instead of waiting for a crisis, we provide proactive care for all, ensuring everyone has access when they need it. 🎉 US Launch - We're proud to announce that all primary Panda services, including our group sessions, are free! And today marks our US launch. We're gearing up to provide 24/7 sessions within the next month. We're eager to hear your feedback, questions, or thoughts. Let's make the Product Hunt community investing in their mental fitness, starting today! Warmly, Alon Lits, CEO
Alexander Ptitsyn
Hi Alon! Accept my congratulations with a successful launch. May I use Panda everywhere and any country?
Dave Blakey
Maker
@alexanderptitsyn Hi Alex :) It's available everywhere, but we only have sessions in English at the moment
Nastassia
@alon_lits Panda looks vital for today's world. And your logo is adorable! Congrats on the launch
Alon Lits
Maker
@alexanderptitsyn Hi Alexander - thanks so much - yes most definitely, Panda is available to download everywhere! I look forward to your feedback! As Dave says, we only have sessions in English right now but we are looking to expand our offerings as we grow. I look forward to your feedback!
Alon Lits
Maker
@shivam_tiwari24 thanks so much! I agree fully and look forward to your feedback and suggestions! I have also seen your LinkedIn request and I will connect there soon!
Elisa Tamburini
Congratulations for this launch! I like your type of approach - I also hope that this type of project can bring more awareness in taking care of one's mental health (often left aside)
Dave Blakey
Maker
@elisa_tamburini Thank you Elisa 🙏🙏
Alon Lits
Maker
@elisa_tamburini Thanks Elisa - we agree fully and share your hope of increasing awareness. We believe in proactive mental health care and we want people to think about their mental health in the same way that they do their physical health.
Lusine Sargsyan
Does each person get a personalized experience or it's a general for everyone?
Dave Blakey
Maker
@lussine_sargsyan Hi Lusine :) For things like coaching it's entirely unique per person, based on what you say. Your personal journey (recommendations etc) also depend on what you do, what you select during signup, your results, etc. The group sessions though are live and interactive and you share those spaces with others interested in the same topics. Our hosts engage directly with users though so feel free to ask any questions
Alon Lits
Maker
@lussine_sargsyan @daveblakey thanks Lussine - Dave has summarized this perfectly and we have big plans to further personalize the experience for users as we grow. We look forward to your feedback and suggestion!
I loved that it is launched on the world mental health day! Thank you for your hard work and congrats on your launch. Emotional well-being is very important and this product will be super beneficial.
Dave Blakey
Maker
@dilancelik Thank you Dilan! It's our birthday as well today 🎉 So it means a lot!
Alon Lits
Maker
@dilancelik thanks so much for the support. We look forward to your feedback!
Narendra Solanki
Mental fitness is so crucial. Kudos! 🧠 Do you offer any guided sessions or is it more of a self-paced platform?
Alon Lits
Maker
@narendra_solanki thank you! we have close to 24 hours of live, interactive sessions on a wide range of topics. These sessions are led by experts and filled with peers. We also offer AI-powered coaching and self-paced content (plus more). Our intention is to meet people where they are and ensure that there is content that has relevance to everyone. I look forward to your feedback!
Artemis Smith
I've been using Panda to help me not only deal with certain issues but the folks at Panda have been amazing at providing content I can use to improve at various aspects of life!
Dave Blakey
Maker
@artemis_smith That's amazing to hear! Thanks so much
Alon Lits
Maker
@artemis_smith thanks for this feedback Artemis - it means a lot to us!
Kaylee Julian
Panda is a very wonderful app. It has everything you need to Increase your overall mental health. I recommend the app to almost everyone I come accross.
Alon Lits
Maker
@kaylee_julian we really appreciate the support - thank you!
Neha
Mental health is crucial, Thanks for creating the application, I will definitely try this application
Alon Lits
Maker
@neha_8 thanks Neha - we look forward to your feedback!
Ravi Bajnath
Mental health care, provided by employers, is a deception for not; paying employees more, working less hours, allowing them to unionize to produce better working conditions, gaslighting into working for private interests instead of local community interests. These are just some root causes of mental health issues related to modern business owners, let's address those instead of pandering to shareholders and manipulative employers? The service delivery framework is great, it's the red flags like "increase employee performance" without linking the preferred incentive of money. Or "Losing talent?" modals that seem to not address the actual problem (the employer being shitty enough to lose good employees in the first place). Seems like a good recommendation is for everyone to read the late David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" because I would avoid any employer that promotes mental health trauma building through a transactional relationship. Concerning. Edit: Also I recommend Byung-Chul Han's "Burnout Society" (2015).
Dave Blakey
Maker
@ravi_bajnath Thanks for addressing this head on Ravi :) It's a complicated topic as you've correctly said. We ultimately want to build a sustainable business model and believe that employers are (in some significant part) footing the bill for the mental health crisis the world faces today. One of the lessons I first learnt when joining Panda was from Allan (the co-founder) who said there is a huge amount of value in helping people to have meaningful friendships, feel successful in their career, and sleep well. I don't think that employers need to be seen as the enemy. Panda *never* discloses personal information to our clients. We are open and transparent with what we share - aggregated information that cannot be targeted and is designed to help employers understand what's driving challenges in their workplace. I believe there is a win/win here and we are working hard at making that a reality. We're an open book though, and we'd love any input on what we share vs what we don't. Transparency is key.
Ravi Bajnath
💡 Bright idea
@daveblakey It's a worthy to note "I don't think" can be prescriptive towards not critically thinking - which is what every person (employer, employee, PH dude) ought to have when dealing with personal/societal mental health percepts. Byung-Chul Han addresses this in "The Transparency Society" as well, the inner/outer psychology of the LinkedIn/Spyware era. Highly recommend. Sustainable business models can only be worker-owned, privatized business models rely on domination and control of capital (employees in this case) and thus becomes unsustainable the moment workers demand changes. (For many, change leads to suffering, thus they rely on preserving the status quo). Meaningful relationships are built on equity, not exploitation. Ask Allen to open a spreadsheet with every employees pay rate and share it openly. :D
Dave Blakey
Maker
@ravi_bajnath Just responding in my personal capacity, but I welcome the conversation! The reality is in my experience the entire workplace is not exclusively filled with toxic managers and business owners trying to drive people into the group. What we do see are people who cannot practically invest in a problem they cannot track and understand, and managers that are not equipped to deal with the challenges people face today. Providing businesses data (and guidance) on where they need to better invest in employees well-being needs to work - because work is such a huge part of life (positive and negative). Will definitely read "The Transparency Society" though you have me interested! Also worth mentioning that no data from normal users is available to employers. Users must sign up under their employer for them to see that, and it's completely optional - we do not tell employers who signed up and who did not. Where we are trying to focus is on ensuring those users who have the option to do that understand that through their collective input we can improve their environments.
Ayesha Awan
Great product!! Better mental health leads to a better life overall.
Alon Lits
Maker
@ayesha_awan1 thank you - we agree fully Ayesha - healthy mind, healthy body, healthy life!
Aurelien
This looks impressively useful!
Alon Lits
Maker
@aureliennnn thank you - we appreciate the support and we look forward to your feedback!
Taryn Morris
The world has never needed mental health support more so thank you for breaking down barriers and enabling accessibility for all!
Alon Lits
Maker
@taryn_morris thank you Taryn! We appreciate the support and we look forward to your feedback!
Janusz Mirowski
I like idea :)
Alon Lits
Maker
@janusz_mirowski thank you - we look forward to your feedback!
roi ehrlich
Great product! Congrats to the team 🔥
Alon Lits
Maker
@roi_e thanks so much Roi!
Philipp Shay
💎 Pixel perfection
Congratulations on the launch! 🎉 Wishing you the best of luck with this important venture. 🐼 How do you ensure the accessibility and inclusivity of your platform for people from diverse backgrounds?
Dave Blakey
Maker
@kinzarra Hi Philipp, thanks so much! And an important question. We are constantly iterating as we grow - learning what different people need in a variety of ways. Obviously there is a lot of data at play and we carefully monitor how users improve and what works best on platform. We also collect information directly - so users can suggest topics they want covered, how they want them covered, etc. We're also working hard on making the actual technical functions of the app more inclusive. As an example, last month we launched a live AI recap for people who cannot hear the sessions where it transcribes and summarizes what hosts say. Lots to learn and do still though!
Alon Lits
Maker
@kinzarra thanks Phillipp. To build on what Dave has said, our intention is to give everyone access to their own community with Panda. We will be offering close to 24 hours of live interactive sessions and hopefully everyone can find something that resonates in one of those sessions. Please do share suggestions on how we can further improve by emailing help@joinpanda.com or by connecting with me directly on Linkedin. Speak soon!
Sarvpriy Arya
much needed product
Alon Lits
Maker
@sarvpriy_arya thank you for the support!
Ruhi
congrats on launch it's great product 🎉
Alon Lits
Maker
@ruhi_singh__ thank you Ruhi - we look forward to your feedback!
Paul Richards
Launching soon!
Awesome to see Panda on Product Hunt. Congrats on the launch Alon!
Alon Lits
Maker
@paul_richards1 thanks so much Paul! We appreciate your support.
Anu
Panda looks vital for today's world! Congrats on the launch!
Alon Lits
Maker
@kajal_d4 thank you Kajal. We agree, despite the connected nature of the world, we have never been more alone. We want to give everyone access to community and tools to improve their mental health through Panda!
Sahil Kumar
wow, nice name panda🙂 congratulations on the launch, great application👍
Alon Lits
Maker
@demondoss thanks Sahil! The backstory of the name is that Allan (our Chief Science Officer and Cofounder) used to always reference a book called "freeing the bears" when he was in private practice. He used to think about helping his patients free their inner bears. We loved this concept and we thought of Panda as an offshoot from here! I look forward to your feedback!