Midnight Support is a free, decentralised support network for the hours when nothing else is open. Built on Midnight — Cardano's privacy-preserving blockchain.
Most support services close. Distress continues. Midnight Support is built by someone who used to work 9 to 5 supporting people as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in the NHS, then return home and log online to continue participating in mental health discussions and spaces on Discord, X and Twitch. I found home and community in these online spaces — even as far back as the year 2000 when I would sign on to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's official chatroom. Providing mental health support has been a passion of mine for over a decade and I now envision a way to provide this 24/7 within professional boundaries and linked into the privacy features of the Midnight Blockchain.
Initially the only person providing support via the app will be myself. This is an important testing phase where I make sure everything is working as expected.
Peer support via the app will always be free, with the additional option to speak with qualified professionals at the affordable price of £1 per minute.
Once we open our clinic in the free-to-play MMORPG Midnight City, the number of peers providing and accessing support alike will increase.
Midnight Support will run on Midnight — a data-protection blockchain built on Cardano. Those aren't buzzwords. For a support network, privacy isn't just a feature, it's mandatory: People reach out in their worst moments and do not want chat logs and records sitting on servers somewhere.
Midnight's tech is built from the ground up with privacy and legal compliance in mind. I would encourage you to read more about Midnight and private blockchain networks in general.
Decentralised infrastructure means no single company can unilaterally shut this off, sell your data, or become a single target for attack.
Your decentralised ID travels with you across apps without needing to trust a central login system with your details.
Zero knowledge proof technology allows you to prove you're a genuine person in need of support without revealing who you are. No account database to be breached, no identity to leak.
My name is Martin and I've worked in mental health since 2017. Midnight Support grew out of a simple observation: People can't or don't always seek help through conventional routes. As somebody who would regularly spend the overnight hours socialising with and supporting people from different countries and timezones across the world, I believe I have found a way now to safely continue this pasttime as a more structured service within observable boundaries. Building on Midnight was the obvious choice to make privacy the foundation, not an afterthought.
The Midnight Support app is in development. In the meantime, why not register as a citizen of Midnight City