If you're in crisis
Vitni isn't the right place. In the United States, call 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on 988, any hour. If it's an emergency, call 911. They're trained for this.
Not in the United States? Find a line in your country
Thinking out loud about the product, the privacy model, and the small set of ideas underneath both. Written irregularly. Never cross-posted.
I was testing Vitni the way I test everything, I was using it for real and waiting for it to break.
The moment you name the chatbot, you've made it a someone. And the moment it's a someone, you start adjusting.
The only thing I can find out is their email if they use that to sign up.
Not as a policy. As a fact about the architecture.
What I was looking for and couldn't find. So I built it instead.
Most of these start as something I couldn't stop turning over while building. What got built, what got cut, why the privacy model looks the way it does. If you're new to Vitni, how it works is the short version. In depth is the long one.