News Summary

• Brent Franson spent four years building a mental-health app that users liked, but that didn't ultimately work as a business.
• In late 2024, seeing a need for a fresh start, he shut down the app, called Most Days, and discarded the codebase.
• The San Francisco-based staff then shifted their attention to building a consumer-health product called Death Clock.
• The experience reshaped how the longtime early-stage entrepreneur, who sold a prior software company he ran to WeWork, thinks about startups.