Hello everybody! A quick background about me, I'm a 17 year old interested in programming. Recently I thought of an idea for a web/mobile start-up that I'm really passionate about. I'm hesitant to disclose the full idea at this point because if it really is a good idea there are people on here who have far more resources and talent that could potentially build it much quicker than I could. Basically, it'd be a website/apps that I believe could greatly aid the treatment of mood disorders.<p>Why am I passionate about that? Well, I've dealt with serious depression over the past few years that has almost taken my life. If the service that I want to create had existed I think my treatment could have been far more effective. In any given year about 10% of the US population (at least among adults), suffers from a mood disorder.<p>However, even though I'm very passionate about this idea, there are some major obstacles involved. Namely, my service would need to be HIPAA compliant in the US. The more I've read into that process the more I've been discouraged. Ultimately after I build an initial version of the service I hope to run a Kickstarter, but I'm not sure how I would go about achieving the funding I would need to run the site in production. I'm estimating the cost at a few thousand in the first year alone, potentially more depending on the popularity achieved.<p>So this is where I want opinions, if you had an idea for something that you believed could potentially benefit many individuals' lives, would you pursue it regardless of the obstacles, costs, and time involved? I guess in my mind this could be my chance to change the world, and I don't want to miss out on that, but I don't know if I'm being realistic.