Product room — 01
Her Next Move
You have a conversation coming that matters. Practise it out loud — with her — before it is real.
What happens in five minutes
- 01
You pick who, and where
Seven characters, each with a temperament of her own. A café, a bar, a queue, a gym. The scene decides how much room you get.
- 02
You speak first
She does not know this is practice. There is no script and no menu of options — you say something, out loud, and it lands or it does not.
- 03
She answers in real time
A live voice. She hesitates, she laughs, she goes quiet on purpose. What moves her is what you say, not how long you talk.
- 04
A coach cuts in, at most three times
Only when it matters. The clock stops while he speaks, and you get the time back.
- 05
The debrief
Five counts, not a grade. What you did, measured against yourself last time — never against anyone else.
What it refuses to do
The parts that are missing are missing on purpose. They are most of the design.
- A camera
There isn’t one, and there never will be. The app does not film, does not photograph, and never asks for the permission. The only sensor is your voice.
- Stored audio
Raw audio is never recorded. What survives a session is a transcript and a handful of counts — and deleting your account deletes those too.
- A talking avatar
A still portrait and a live voice, not a puppet moving its mouth. The generated video was built, tried, and cut — it cost more and added less.
- Streaks and confetti
No XP, no badges, no numbers counting up. A celebration after a mediocre conversation is a lie, and the app promised not to lie.
Why practice works
Rehearsing a hard social situation is one of the better-evidenced ideas in clinical psychology. In meta-analysis, virtual-reality exposure therapy for social anxiety performs about as well as doing the thing for real, and clearly better than not practising at all.
That is the ground the app stands on. It is not a claim about this app — there is no outcome data for Her Next Move, and there will not be any until real people have used it for long enough to mean something. It is the reason the premise is not a trick.
In development · No date, because there isn’t one
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