Erica K. King
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Building the Stress Reset App: Part 1 — Starting With the Psychology

May 25, 2026

Most build-in-public content skips straight to the tech stack. I wanted to start earlier — with the psychology question underneath the app.

The question was simple to state and hard to answer: what's the smallest possible intervention that reliably lowers perceived stress in under five minutes?

I'll be sharing the wireframes, the prompts I used to generate a first working version, and the parts that didn't work in the next posts in this series.

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