After placing 2nd at Stanford's Longevity Design Challenge, I built this menopause tracking app end-to-end; from research to live product. Tracks symptoms, identifies patterns, and creates summaries women can bring to their doctors.
Why menopause?
65 million Indian women are navigating menopause right now, mostly without support.
Half don't know what's happening to them. The other half know something is happening and can't name it. Awareness is low, healthcare costs are climbing, and the cultural norm is to wait it out in silence.
For the 2023 Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge, I spent five months on this. Interviewed 38 women aged 42–55 across India. Interviewed 8 gynaecologists. The pattern that kept surfacing wasn't medical - it was informational. Women weren't struggling because menopause is inherently unmanageable. They were struggling because nobody had told them what to expect, what was normal, what wasn't, and when to actually see a doctor.
Of the 38 women I spoke to, only 4 were post-menopause. 23 were perimenopausal.
3 had no symptoms yet. Most of the women with symptoms didn't know their symptoms were menopause-related. Many believed heavy bleeding would just resolve on its own.
The 8 gynaecologists confirmed the other side of the gap: patients came in with fragmented information, if any. Nobody had visibility into what happened between appointments.
The problem wasn't medicine. It was translation.
The two years I did nothing
I flew back to Mumbai. Put the trophy on my desk. Went back to my design job. For two years, the product lived in a Figma file. My excuse was: I need a technical co-founder first. Hours I spent looking for one: zero.
I'm being direct about this because it's the actual story. The barrier to shipping wasn't design. It wasn't research. It wasn't validation. All of that was done. The barrier was a story I was telling myself about who was allowed to build.
The night I stopped waiting
In April 2026, I opened Claude and just talked. The research. The pain points. The kit. The business model. What I wanted the app to feel like.
Claude pointed out something I'd missed for two years: the physical kit wasn't separate from the app - it was the onboarding. By the time a woman downloads the app, she's already tracked symptoms on her fridge for 30 days.
The cold-start problem every consumer wellness app faces? Solved by cardboard.
Then I said: okay, let's build.
Using Claude Code, I shipped six screens overnight:
