Memry (acquired)

In 2021, I heard of the unfortunate suicide of someone in my circle. Someone full of energy, someone who always had high-spirits regardless of the time or date, someone instilling enthusiasm and light to every individual around him. I didn't know it then but this would send me on a long journey of what ifs and whether such incidents had a way to be prevented. In late 2022, my conversations with Dr. Kandel, nobel laureate in Neuroscience and Dr. Seligman, father of positive psychology exposed a fundamental truth: loneliness is exacerbating. Loneliness that if left untreated can turn into something worse. Armed with Dr. Seligman's PERMA, plentiful conversations with individuals experiencing loneliness and suicidal thoughts, and a naive "how hard could it be" approach I set out to build a preventative measure. Working with psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, teenagers, parents, teachers, and professors we reimagined what relationship means. Today, platforms like TikTok & Instagram is designed for connecting people with thousands of shallow mutuals had little to no effect on a person's overall emotional wellbeing. We asked a simple question which relationships do we actually miss and remember? Repeatedly, we counted the 3-5 people that makes us laugh, that admittedly can even empower us. So would it be possible to connect people solely with those 3-5 people? Allow people to strengthen relationships together in person, when unfeasible allow opportunities in-app to maintain them?