u/Fair-Mix-538

Hi everyone!

TLDR: I'm Ciel, and I've been using Finch for a while now and it's genuinely helped me. I'm now in the final year of a computer science master's, and I chose to build my own self-care app as my graduation project. It's called Nuage (French for "cloud" since I'm based in France).

Survey link: [LINK] => around 10 minutes, anonymous, every question optional except a couple of basic ones. Thank you!

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More context for the most curious of you folks:

• I'm not trying to compete with Finch. This is a student project
• I'm also someone navigating mental health stuff (ADHD, autism, GAD, recovery from depression, PTSD).

Quick concept: Nuage is a self-care app loosely inspired by Pokémon. You choose an egg, link it to an exercise (e.g. "prioritize my tasks", "positive affirmations", "mood tracker"...), and your creature grows each time you practice. Once you hatch an egg, you can choose and incubate another one. Exercises will be mostly based on CBT-validated techniques. Only positive reinforcement: no streaks that break, no guilt-tripping... It's framed as a complement to professional care, never a substitute. Strong data protection too (GDPR-compliant by design, since I'm in the EU).

Where I'd love your help: Finch users are the closest thing to Nuage's audience. I want to understand what works in Finch, what makes you come back every day, what you wished was different, and what made some of you leave, so that I can honor what works and make different choices where it doesn't.

A note on the screen I've added below / attached: I'm a developer, not a designer. This is a broke student project and I am not required to launch it on app stores, so I did what I could with creative commons assets and a cheap asset library. Please judge the concept and direction, not the polish.

Huge thanks to anyone who fills it in. And to the original Finch team if you ever see this: thank you for what you built. This wouldn't exist without you 🩷

Hi everyone!

TLDR: I'm Ciel, and I've been using Finch for a while now and it's genuinely helped me. I'm now in the final year of a computer science master's, and I chose to build my own self-care app as my graduation project. It's called Nuage (French for "cloud" since I'm based in France).

Survey link: [LINK] => around 10 minutes, anonymous, every question optional except a couple of basic ones. Thank you!

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More context for the most curious of you folks:

• I'm not trying to compete with Finch. This is a student project, it will not be monetized.
• I'm also someone navigating mental health stuff (ADHD, autism, GAD, recovery from depression, PTSD).

Quick concept: Nuage is a self-care app loosely inspired by Pokémon. You choose an egg, link it to an exercise (e.g. "prioritize my tasks", "positive affirmations", "mood tracker"...), and your creature grows each time you practice. Exercises will be mostly based on CBT-validated techniques. Only positive reinforcement: no streaks that break, no guilt-tripping, no sad pets. It's framed as a complement to professional care, never a substitute. Strong data protection too (GDPR-compliant by design, since I'm in the EU).

Where I'd love your help: Finch users are the closest thing to Nuage's audience. I want to understand what works in Finch, what makes you come back every day, what you wished was different, and what made some of you leave, so that I can honor what works and make different choices where it doesn't.

A note on the screens I've added below / attached: I'm a developer, not a designer. I did what I could with creative commons assets and a paid asset library. Please judge the concept and direction, not the polish.

Huge thanks to anyone who fills it in. And to the original Finch team if you ever see this: thank you for what you built. This wouldn't exist without you 🩷