{"id":94154,"title":"Sunflower: An AI Agent tasked with helping you stay sober. 🌻","tagline":"Quit drinking alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, opioids, heroin, gambling, porn, or anything else","body":"![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/03768fda-8234-42c4-a4ef-07df5eccdb39)\n\nHey friends!\n\nSunflower builds an app that **uses AI to convince people to stop drinking** (or doing drugs) \u0026 **to stop killing ourselves**. 🐝\n\nMost people have a personal story or connection with addiction.\n\nFor me, I used to smoke too much weed (thank god it wasn’t anything harder). My grandpa passed away from alcoholism \u0026 my grandma passed away from lung cancer.\n\n“Addiction” is a supply constrained market, which means that there isn’t enough supply (good doctors) to properly service the 1 billion+ humans who struggle with addiction.\n\nBut because of an AI, **for the first time EVER**, we have an infinitely scalable solution to effectively treat addiction.\n\n**Sunflower grew from 200 → 100,000 Monthly Active Users in less than 6 months**, and now we’re in almost every country on earth in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese.\n\nSorry there’s no “video” for this Launch YC. Best way to experience our product is to simply [go download it](https://sunflowersober.com/).\n\n**Here’s the thing i’m most proud of**, which is what our users actually say about this thing that we built:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/02950d8c-fc04-4f17-93be-075ed219c1ba)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/97b08723-3fa7-493f-b1cc-9733d3270220)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/fc3432ff-3c0b-48af-b989-0cba27824309)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/8bfa5024-b885-4b80-a532-fe88966d4b01)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/3a18de92-bd65-4294-9ea5-73d7a140ba46)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/37117421-e206-4e2e-b07f-20aac23d3455)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/6b7ea32c-b46d-4fd7-a046-2577d9102a71)\n\n","slug":"OUc-sunflower-an-ai-agent-tasked-with-helping-you-stay-sober","created_at":"2025-09-26T20:58:53.448Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T12:35:12.218Z","total_vote_count":446,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OUc-sunflower-an-ai-agent-tasked-with-helping-you-stay-sober","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94154\u0026key=user_uploads/132378/03768fda-8234-42c4-a4ef-07df5eccdb39","company":{"id":30914,"name":"Sunflower","slug":"sunflower","url":"https://sunflowersober.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0205358bcacb803d2d20a6f091abad1460fc2bde.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30914"}}