Need your opinion about ai health app (I will not promote)
Hello! I am a 20 year old from Norway, and I am trying to build a health app and want to get som brutal feedbacks about the idea.
I was thinking quite a lot about most of the doctor visits are short, often 12 minutes and don’t get a lot of it of that time. Often times the doctors don’t talk with eachother. Which is important when it comes to the supplements you take or eventually the new one you get and make sure that if you mix them, doesn’t affect you in a bad way. Often times you are confused what you have talked about with the doctors and end up googling, which is not a good idea.
The part I think makes it more than a ChatGPT wrapper: it remembers. Months later, when you mention you’re tired, it remembers your iron was low-normal last quarter. That memory compounds over time.
When it comes to how much you can save, it quite a bit. You can eventually pay to get second opinions, which can vary from 200$ - 2000$. So people pay a lot for getting second opinions from other specialist because the regular doctor didn’t have time to answer it.
So the idea is to do a version of that for 39$ a month. It of course doesn’t replace your doctor, but it makes you to come to your doctor more prepared and walk out understanding what happened and so on. Instead to paying for a second appointment and get a second opinion from a specialist.
So what I’m building is an AI that actually knows your whole health picture and helps you make sense of it.
When you sign up, it asks the stuff a good doctor would actually want to know: your age, conditions, allergies, what medications and supplements you take, a bit about your lifestyle and family history. And then it’s just there for you. You can ask it anything. What does this lab result actually mean. Is this safe to take with my other meds. Should I be worried about this symptom. Help me get ready for my appointment on Friday.
The thing I think makes it different from just opening ChatGPT is that it remembers. Every conversation, every result, every time you change a medication. it all builds up. So three months later when you mention you’ve been tired, it already knows your iron was low-normal last quarter. That memory is what I think makes it actually valuable instead of just a chatbot.
There’s a few other pieces to it. There’s a body view where you can mark exactly where it hurts and bring that to your doctor, because people are honestly terrible at describing pain in words and pointing is just faster. There’s an appointment prep thing that pulls together a one-page summary of what to ask before you go in. And it checks for interactions across your meds and supplements, because most people taking a handful of supplements have no clue if they’re cancelling each other out or messing with their prescriptions.
One thing I want to be clear about. It doesn’t diagnose anything, it doesn’t prescribe, and it’s not trying to replace your doctor. It’s an educational tool that helps you understand your own health and walk into appointments prepared. That’s both the legal line and genuinely how I think about it.
What I actually want to know from you:
Would you, personally, pay $39/month for this? If no, what would make you pay? If yes, what would make you cancel after month two?
The biggest concern I have is that ChatGPT is free and getting better fast. Is “memory of your personal health profile” really enough of a moat, or am I fooling myself?
For those of you who’ve built consumer subscription products: is health a category you’d touch, or is the regulatory/liability surface a dealbreaker?
Is there a category of person you think this would resonate with most? My instinct says people managing aging parents, anyone with 3+ medications or supplements, and the “got a confusing lab result at 11pm” crowd. Who am I missing?
Is there something I should add or replace it with instead, it can be any idea which will make this currently medical idea better, or some kind of extra feature which would make you say, “it’s worth it, take my money!”.