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September 4, 2026 I’ve lived with anxiety for 3 years. So I built something to help myself.

I've been living with anxiety for around 3 years, and I take medication for it.

During that time, one of the things I've struggled with most is understanding why some days are good and others suddenly aren't. Sometimes the anxiety appears and I can't even tell what triggered it.

So I started building something for myself.

What began as a small personal project eventually became CONFIA.

I wanted a place where I could keep track of how I was feeling, look back at previous days, recognize patterns and hopefully start understanding some of my triggers before they hit me again.

But there was another part I felt was missing: other people.

Talking about anxiety with someone who actually experiences it can be completely different from trying to explain it to someone who doesn't. So I added a community where people can share what they're going through and talk to others who understand.

I'm still taking my medication and I don't believe an app replaces therapy or professional help. That's not what I'm trying to build.

I just wanted something that could be there during the normal day-to-day moments when anxiety happens.

CONFIA is completely free, and I've now made it available to anyone on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.confiaolhaparadentro&hl=en

I'm building this on my own and I'm still learning what CONFIA should become.

That's actually why I'm posting here.

I'd love some honest feedback from other founders: would the story behind CONFIA make you want to try it? And if you did, what would make you keep coming back?

I'm especially interested in criticism. I'd rather hear what's missing now than spend months building the wrong things.

GUILHERME FILIPE SIMÕES MENDES

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    The interesting test seems less whether the story gets someone to install, and more what happens after the first few entries. Have early users actually found a reason to return without being prompted, and what are they returning for?
    Aryan Sinh's avatar Aryan Sinh
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      That’s exactly the question I’m trying to answer now. Early usage showed me that simply offering wellbeing tools wasn’t enough to create a strong reason to return. That’s why CONFIA is evolving from a collection of tools into a companion that becomes more useful with every entry. The return loop I’m building is: users check in → CONFIA remembers → patterns emerge → the app reacts to those patterns and previous days → users return to see what CONFIA has learned about them. It’s still early, so I wouldn’t claim that this loop is proven yet. But that shift — from “open the app when you need a tool” to “open it because it knows your journey” — is what I’m testing now.
      GUILHERME FILIPE SIMÕES MENDES's avatar GUILHERME FILIPE SIMÕES MENDES
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        That shift from a tool to a companion is the interesting part. I’d be interested in digging into whether the “it knows my journey” value actually creates unprompted returns. What’s the best email to reach you on?
        Aryan Sinh's avatar Aryan Sinh
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I've been living with anxiety for the past three years and I take medication for it. CONFIA started as something I wanted to build for myself. I wanted a simple way to understand why some days were harder than others, r

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