John Galea

Have you ever asked - 'is is just me, or is everyone feeling this way?'

One day, I was having coffee with my friend in Marrickville, Sydney. We were discussing how many of our friends and families suffered from problems with mood - from mild mood swings to clinical mental illness. We started thinking about the subjective nature of mood and feeling - how it's hard to track your own moods day to day, and difficult to know whether you are affected by events and people around you.

We conceived of an online app that let you track your emotions, both in time and space. An app that would take the aggregate of others' moods and show you how your mood compares with your friends', your families', your city, your nation, the world. Thus Moodoo was born.

Moodoo lets you make a mood self-report, consisting of:



1) a mood rating between 1 and 10, using colourful and playful mood icons;
2) your location
3) a written record of why you think you feel how you do.

Moodoo then takes this data and allows you to see how your mood changes over time in the Mooderator, an interactive timeline, and the MoodPie, a chart that shows you what percentage of your updates fit into the different mood states - e.g. you select 'boppy' 35% of the time, 'grumpy' 10%, etc.







But this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future of Moodoo!

These include:

- the MoodMap: a map which shows where you were when you were feeling a certain way & averages your moods over   particular areas
- a Therapeutic Mode which allows you to make detailed reports about your mental health state, with separate axes for mood,   energy level and calmness/agitation
- customization of the names & colours for the different mood states - you make up your own states for mood levels 1-10
- ability to nominate an emergency contact & warnings for when you have a series of low moods
- Reminders to update your mood via email/phone/OS notifications
- an option to publish your mood as social media stories , choosing privacy settings for different friend levels/circles in     Facebook, Google %20, Twitter
- import Facebook emotion states
- Add or link images & videos to updates
- Average of all users
- Average of friend groups / circles
- Average maps
- cyclical data view - e.g. days of the week, time of month, months, seasons,
- biometric link, e.g. apple watch / android wear / proprietary devices
- access weather apis and display along with moods
- export data - PDF, Word, excel, CSV, mysql
- mood data API

Any support you pledge to Moodoo will be spent on the following:

Intellectual property protection - trademarks and patents in Australia and internationally
IT costs - Server upkeep, domain registration, SSL certificates

Here's the breakdown:

Moodoo Crowdfunding Budget
Domain Costs - $50
SSL Certificate - $250
Dedicated Server 1 year months - $500
Trademark Costs - $500
Legal - $500
Delivering Rewards - $200
Advertising and awareness - $500


Total Budget - $2500

The main challenges in delivering the Moodoo vision are related to building an organisation that can sustain it. I want Moodoo to stay free and ad-free, so I am trying to develop a community of developers and testers, and raise the money needed to buy dedicated servers and pay for other ongoing IT costs.

Part of that challenge is to convert my codebase to something that is cleaner and clearer for others to understand, so that Moodoo can become an open-source GitHub project, which will allow features to be added faster and with more robustness than is currently possible. This will be the next phase of my work on Moodoo.

If Moodoo takes off quickly, we will need to be able to scale the operation up quickly. The speed factor could create unique challenges. Our plan is to transition to a dedicated virtual server at the 5,000 users mark, and to look into further dedicated hardware as the need arises.

Ideally, I would like to transform Moodoo into a globally recognised charity brand, so that it can receive donations directly and partner with organisations like BeyondBlue and ReachOut in Australia and similar organisations overseas. Your support on Pozible is the first small step on this ambitious journey.