Please describe your proposed solution.
Good health comes from consistent health-promoting behaviours, e.g. regular exercise, a healthy diet, adequate sleep, participating in hobbies, etc. However, trying to thrive in an economy that demands our constant attention can result in ignoring these important, healthful habits.
Often, people want to improve their health but don’t know where to start.
We propose a dApp that encourages the Cardano community to engage in simple self-care activities.
<u>Opening the dApp</u>: The user will be asked to rate their current mood, energy level and the amount of effort they want to dedicate to the task. Based on these results, a recommended activity and a brief description of its benefits will appear.
Recommended activities: These will focus on a holistic health model, Te Whare Tapa Whā (four pillars of wellbeing), which includes mental/emotional health, physical health, spiritual health and social health.
Examples:
- Mental/emotional: Journalling prompts to foster gratitude, watch a funny video, clean the work area
- Physical: stretching, flossing, eating vegetables, exercise
- Spiritual: connect with nature, meditate, set aside time for thought and reflection
- Social: spend time with loved ones, play an online game, call a friend, write a message to someone
There will be a choice to select another activity randomly or to manually choose one.
<u>Completing the activity</u>: Once completed, the dApp will prompt the user to complete a brief check-in to reflect on the activity. The dApp will also invite users to share their task completion with the dApp’s Discord community for social encouragement and feedback.
Points will be awarded for completing the task and reflection, with extra points awarded for sharing the task on social media platforms. Points can be converted into rewards, such as Mushroom Mob NFTs and prizes from any future partnerships.
<u>Monthly Wellbeing Challenges:</u> Mushroom Mob already hosts monthly wellbeing challenges in our Discord server. These challenges can be run in the dApp; the Discord server will continue being used for ongoing social encouragement.
To our knowledge, Cardano does not currently have a dApp focusing on self-care. We chose self-care as it is a recognised area for mental health promotion and veers away from more complex clinical models of improving mental wellbeing. Internet self-help interventions can have a positive effect on reducing the risk of suicide (SDG KPI) and improving overall health.
We anticipate that regular engagement with the dApp will boost the Cardano community’s participation in self-care activities and overall wellbeing.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
Cardano needs a thriving ecosystem of different Dapps, products and integrations for the community to use. We believe that for the community to thrive, we must invest in our health and ensure that there are Dapps available to encourage investment in our health whilst bringing our visions to life.
The Cardano ecosystem has the right tools, libraries and SDKs to make the idea feasible.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
<u>Building the dApp whilst managing an existing workload</u>
The team are the founders of Mushroom Mob, an NFT project focused on promoting health and wellness. We will manage our multiple responsibilities using open communication and online project management software (e.g. Trello). We will also ensure regular breaks for our own self-care to promote the sustainability of this project.
<u>Currency exchange volatility</u>
We will exchange ADA into fiat upon receiving funds to mitigate this risk.