Staminas
this is a digital log of me building a health app for myself.
23rd July 2025:
I think i'm in the top 1% in terms of people when it comes to screen time, for various reasons i had to spend enormous amounts of time reading or doing something on a computer:
- In middle school, i spent most of times reading books/novels on my computer.
- In high school, i was a professional contestant for in multiple programming competitions (including national informatics olympiad, collegiate programming competitions, ...), spending hundreds of hours on websites like codeforces, atcoder, codechef, ...
- In college (i did a bachelors in computer science and ai), obviously all my studying, not taking, assignments, projects, ... happen on my laptop. but more than that, i was also exploring plenty of side projects, and startup ideas, i taught myself web development with react.js, and other modern technologies by spending countless hours following online tutorials.
all of this obviously had a toll on my health, since i was not exercising much, i became more short-sighted - for example now struggling to read text on a faraway screen- and overall some other negative implications on my health.
i'm 23 btw, i should have a much better baseline of overall health and fitness, hence i'm exploring some ideas to improve my health, and help others who are in a similar situation.
i don't have a fixed idea yet, but the general direction is building some solution that helps me build a habit of exercising - physically and cognitively - with the ultimate goal of improving my health and increasing my stamina, hence i'm calling the it Staminas.
it'll most likely be a phone app, since that comes with the benefit of mobility, and i can make use of the different sensors, cameras, etc. also i can later buy a smart watch to get better signal about my bio data.
No opinions on the tech stack yet, i care about performance and nativeness of the app. i may build it build it multiple times in different tech stacks and see.
25th July 2025:
I'm learning about Apple CoreML, also planning to start looking for some reference designs, no code written yet.
https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/create-ml/
P.S More updates are coming.
Drafts:
- feature suggestion: benchmark your health against the population your age.
- design reference: https://github.com/origin-space/ui-experiments
https://t3.chat/chat/b4627205-f5a1-4b19-be8c-e6fe8f5a785a
https://t3.chat/chat/534f8f60-c83f-4755-a532-f3ee656682b0
https://t3.chat/chat/e40aa858-8a84-4667-bbaa-9a912c53bf83
https://x.com/superpower/status/1920569224516300959
https://superpower.com/