How Mood Swing started
It started in a classroom. During an accountancy lesson, our teacher mentioned a business competition and asked each of us to jot down an idea — nothing complicated, just two or three lines on a page. Within minutes, I knew what mine would be: a mental health app. In 2023, that wasn't yet a mainstream idea.
I wrote the name down that same week — Mood Swing — and then missed the first competition entirely. I registered too late; the door closed before it even opened. But the idea wouldn't leave me alone. So I kept going — entering every contest, incubator, and program I could find: Vreau să fiu antreprenor, Junior Achievement Romania, hackathons, innovation labs.
A brand that learned to breathe
The logo went through three lives before it found the one it has now. Each version is a little less loud, a little more honest — which is, honestly, also the story of the app itself.
The first interface
Before the current design, there was a clunkier, earnest version from 2024 — the kind you look back on and smile at. It's not what the app looks like now, but it's where every idea that did stay started.
Pitching it, over and over
There were weeks — sometimes months — when I thought I wouldn't make it. When the slides felt empty, when the feedback stung, when no one seemed to believe it could work. I never said it out loud, but I came close to giving up more times than I can count. I just didn't. In 2025, I reached the national finals of Junior Achievement Romania, and something finally landed — not just in my head, but in the room. That weekend gave me the fuel for everything that came after.
On national television
Somewhere along the way, Pro TV — I Like IT picked up the story and asked us to talk about Mood Swing on air. Saying the words "a gentler wellness companion" to a camera instead of a panel of judges was a strange, good feeling — proof that the idea was starting to travel on its own.
The real reason
Now, in 2026, I'm launching Mood Swing with a small team and a handful of professionals who've walked with me along the way. But I want to be honest about where this really started: it didn't begin with a market gap. It began with me.
I spent three years of my life inside something that felt like a heavy, quiet fog — emotional numbness. For a long time, I didn't tell anyone. I fought it alone, the way too many people do.
Mood Swing exists because I don't want anyone else sitting in that fog the way I did. I want people to find their feelings again — to know they're not broken, and they're not even alone. And beyond that: I want emotional numbness to be taken seriously. To be named, researched, talked about.
The fight isn't over. This app is how I keep fighting — out loud, where others can see it and know they're allowed to fight too.