A question for tinnitus practitioners
Would you like practical tinnitus tools built into your website?
No separate app. No redirect. No code for your practice to write or maintain.
Sound matching is the first tool—not necessarily the last. Tell us what your practice needs. Useful ideas shared by the network can be built centrally and made available to everyone.
Would your practice use this?
I’m building free tinnitus tools that practices can add to their own websites and style to match their brand. The first tool already exists. Before I build the larger referral network around it, I want to know whether practices would genuinely use either part.
So this page has two real questions: would you use the free embedded tool, and is the larger idea worth building? Everything below is context for answering them.
Built and working
A free tool for your own website
The Tinnitus Project’s sound-matching tool is live now. It helps people create a close representation of their tinnitus and gives them practical guidance for using sound and attention more deliberately.
It has become surprisingly easy to create the first version of a sound-matching tool. The harder part is making sure it continues to work properly, keeping it updated and improving it as people use it. A centrally managed tool gives every participating practice those benefits without each practice having to build and maintain its own version.
The Tinnitus Project is independent of any individual practice or professional discipline. I’m not an audiologist or therapist, and the project does not provide clinical appointments of its own. I’m building from the perspective of someone who lives with tinnitus, while inviting practitioners to help ensure the tools and support pathways are useful, responsible and professionally relevant.
- Embedded on your siteVisitors can use the tool without being sent away to another website.
- Matched to your practiceThe embedded version can be styled so it feels like part of your own site.
- Maintained centrallyUpdates are handled by The Tinnitus Project, with nothing for your practice to maintain.
- Free to useNo fee, contract or obligation beyond adding the embed to your website.
You can try the current tool before deciding whether the embedded version would be useful to your patients or clients.
An idea—not a promise
A network for visitors a practice cannot serve
Someone may discover a useful resource on a practice’s website but be outside its catchment area, need a different specialism or arrive when the practice is fully booked. At present, that visitor will usually leave without finding appropriate help.
If the same tool were used across a network of participating practice websites, it could offer those visitors a route to suitable support elsewhere—while helping other practices send relevant local visitors back in return.
How it could work
- It would activate only when a visitor actively asks to find professional support—not by passively tracking everyone who uses the tool.
- Each practice would define its own catchment area, services and availability.
- Visitors would be matched with support they could realistically access, including online services where appropriate.
- Individual partner links would make introduced traffic and resulting referrals visible and measurable.
- Any commercial model would be developed openly with participating practices, with suitability for the person seeking help taking priority.
This network has not been built. I’m describing it now because it would be a substantial project, and I want to establish whether practitioners would find it useful before committing the time and resources to develop it.
Two questions—that’s all
I’m not asking you to commit to a partnership or agree to commercial terms. I only want to know whether either idea is useful enough to take further.
1. Would you use the free embedded tool on its own?
This is the part that can be used independently, whether or not a referral network is ever built.
2. Is the referral-network idea worth building?
A yes, no or “maybe, if…” is useful. This is a request for your honest view, not a commitment.
The form below should take about a minute. There are only two substantive questions, with optional space to explain what would make either idea useful to your practice.
Why I’m asking before building
The Tinnitus Project is currently being built by one person with tinnitus. The aim is to create practical support without miracle claims, and to develop professional tools around what sufferers and practitioners genuinely need—not assumptions made in isolation.
If practices would use the embedded tool, I can help them start using it. If there is real interest in the wider network, that will tell me it deserves further development. If there isn’t, that is equally useful to know.
Dan Blackburn
Founder, The Tinnitus Project