Any other tech startup founders out there?

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Hi everyone!

I'm new to the community and ecstatic to meet other people with Autism Spectrum Disorders I personally have Aspergers/High-Functioning Autism and am actually working on an AI based hardware startup that treats Aspergers using image recognition and machine learning.

Would love to connect with other tech startup founders or people in the Bay Area!

That is interesting. I am not from the bay area, but I will say welcome to wrong planet!

There are many nice people here, though we are kind of dealing with a spamming problem today, so...yep.

There are many people here who are willing to help with questions about pretty much everything. I am an aspiring game dev and this community has been very helpful, so pretty much everyone is nice (except for the spammers), and are very helpful.

So, welcome, and good luck on your hardware designing! It sounds very interesting.

Thanks for the warm welcome @cthulhuhead I look forward to being a part of the community.

I've done a lot of programming, mostly games
I made some videogame characters who react to things that happen in an environment.
I mostly worked from home so I didn't make much money

Welcome to the forum.

I'm having a bit of fun coding my own little audio toys to help with my sound sensitivity, and I really like the idea of autistic folks coming up with their own little bits of technology to help with some of the traits that can make life awkward sometimes. Best of luck with your startup!

@Trogluddite that sounds really cool what you're doing! I'd love to learn more. Are you using Arduino?

It's certainly not what most people would call a tech startup, but I'm beginning to sketch out a multi-site Wordpress installation that I'm thinking about developing. It might grow into a national organization of some kind if it is successful.

At the moment I'm just using the PC to sketch out some algorithms. For example, generating the sound of the wind, babbling water, various kinds of noise and tones, all calculated in real time. I want to try and come up with a system and user interface that has a nice simple interface that can morph between those sounds (as opposed to just switching or cross-fading between pre-recorded loops) - including morphing over a preset time range. So for example, if water sounds are particularly soothing, the user could easily ramp up or down the water "flow rate" and "turbulence" over a set period of time - so there are no sensory "jolts" between changing the sound, and the user is not simply limited to a handful of preset noises.

I'm using a little development environment called "FlowStone" at the moment - a graphical based rapid-prototyping audio toolkit that I've used for a long time. But once I have something decent running, I hope to port it to C++, so that it can be compiled for other devices, and the code can be open-sourced more easily.

It's very early days at the moment - partly because my own ASD diagnosis was very recent, so I'm experimenting on myself as much as with the code, as I never tried to "treat" my sound sensitivity in the past. I find pre-recorded sounds can be very soothing, but find the lack of flexibility, limited track length, and the jolt of switching tracks when I feel the need for a different sound really spoils the therapeutic effect sometimes.

I'll certainly post some Beta's up when I have something worth testing - it is intended as a therapeutic tool for people with sensory difficulties, so I'll certainly need some user feedback once the code is stable. It'll probably just be a PC app to begin with as that's easy to export from FlowStone, but people's mobile devices would be the ultimate target. (Not that I have anything against a bit of hardware tweakery - I worked for a little PIC development company until quite recently, and have plenty of soldering iron scars!)