Becoming Feerless: Lessons Learned from Building Tools for Mental Health
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A crowdsourced tool called Feerless is a Chrome extension that posts crowdsourced trigger warnings for Netflix by letting users tag timestamps and metadata for scenes like sexual assault, animal abuse, suicide and more, then showing a subtle bubble about 30 seconds before a reported trigger. Built as a side project, it works in practice but reveals gaps: unknown medical expertise, endless category requests, emotional labor and the need for boundaries, yet user gratitude and connections make continuing worthwhile.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:07Becoming Feerless: Lessons Learned from Building Tools for Mental Health
- 0:17Becoming Feerless Lessons learned from building tools for mental health
- 0:33This is Scout He's my emotional support dog
- 0:51Danielle Leong Software Engineer on GitHub's Community & Safety team
- 4:06Being amongst heroes is kinda hard
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