Therapy Buddy
Therapy Buddy is a cutting edge AI assisted special therapy application for patients and therapists to collaborate with specialized therapy sessions.
About This Project
A cutting edge AI application that allows therapists to securely run specialized guided sessions with their patients. Therapists can receive insigntful feedback from the AI on their patients and use that feedback to improve their sessions.
Key Achievements
- Therapy Buddy is a highly scalable Amplify + OpenAI application that scales from nearly zero to practically infinite users with zero
- OpenAI integration to use the OpenAI API to provide high quality AI assisted therapy sessions
- A cutting edge AI application that allows therapists to securely run specialized guided sessions with their patients.
- Used AWS Lambda to allow for burstable usage patterns at a very low cost, deployed on edge locations to reduce latency
- AWS Cognito to authenticate users and store user data in the cloud, allowing for easy user management and authentication
- AWS S3 to store user data and files in a highly available and scalable manner
- AWS DynamoDB to store user data and files in a highly available and scalable utilizing realtime socket capabilities
- AWS API Gateway to serve the same application API layer to web users that will be deployed to iOS and Android
- AWS Lambda to allow for burstable usage patterns at a very low cost, deployed on edge locations to reduce latency
- AWS Amplify to host the application and allow for easy deployment and scaling, application costs scale with usage
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