Still Space - Mental Health Aid - A quiet companion for the hard days

Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Still Space because every mental health app I tried expected me to meditate when I could barely get out of bed.

10 months unemployed. Anxiety and depression. My therapist suggested to-do lists. They made things worse, every unchecked item felt like proof I was failing.

So I did the opposite. Instead of planning what to do, I started noticing what I'd already done. Replied to a message. Drank water. Got dressed. Tiny things, but writing them down changed something real. I found out later this is called behavioral activation. I didn't read about it. I stumbled into it because nothing else worked.

Something shifted. I found out later this is called behavioral activation — an evidence-based approach for depression. I hadn't read about it. I just stumbled into it because nothing else was working.

I looked for an app that worked this way. Nothing existed. So I built one. I'm a Senior Product Designer from Ukraine, no coding experience. I used AI tools and figured it out as I went.

Here's what Still Space does:
✓ Mood check-in that doesn't pretend you're fine
✓ Micro-actions matched to your mood AND where you are — at home, outside, at work
✓ "Just be here" mode — calming sounds and presence for when you can't do anything at all
✓ A place to write everything out — text disappears, no saving
✓ Journal with mood history, patterns, and notes to your future self
✓ Crisis helplines built in
✓ Fully private — no data leaves your device
✓ Ukrainian, English, Russian

✗ No streaks
✗ No guilt
✗ No toxic positivity

It's not another meditation app. It's the app you needed at 3am when you couldn't sleep and couldn't think straight. It's iOS only for now. There's a 7-day free trial.

If you've been through something similar, I'd love to hear what helped and what didn't. And if you know someone who might need this right now — sharing it means everything. Every single person who finds it matters.

Thank you for being here 💜

"How are you today?" I love that. It's something that's simple yet effective, and it's something that we forget to ask ourselves often. Starting with that question is powerful.

The local-first approach is great, too. Is it local-first only, or does the user have the chance to eventually sync their data to the cloud?

Congrats on your launch 🫶🏾