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Mind Is Medicine

Industry
Health and wellness
Service lines
Mobile app engineering, Backend engineering
Stack
React Native, TypeScript, Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Messaging), RevenueCat
Engagement
October 2025 to June 2026
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The Situation

The founder’s approach treats stress, anxiety, poor sleep and unexplained physical symptoms as one shared pattern: a nervous system that has learned to stay on alert. They wanted an app that helps people understand that pattern and gently retrain it, with guided practices, regular check-ins to show change over time, and immediate help on a bad day.

The Constraint

The app had to feel calming from the first screen. Many users arrive tense or overwhelmed, so a long sign-up questionnaire would lose them. It also had to stay clearly on the wellness side, without diagnosing anyone, while still giving people in real distress a fast route to professional help

What we did

We built the iOS and Android app and its Firebase backend.

Feel it before the questions: onboarding explains the idea in a few short screens, then guides the user through a 90-second breathing reset before asking anything. Users feel the difference first, so they’re more likely to finish the check-in that follows.

Starting-point check-in: a short assessment covers stress, anxiety, mood, sleep, emotional reactivity and physical symptoms. Every screen says it is not a diagnosis. Users are reminded to check in again every 15 days, and their scores are charted so they can see change over time.

Personal 8-week journey: users pick the values and things that make them feel alive, and the app builds a guided plan from those choices and their check-in. Daily reflections and streaks help keep the habit going.

Help on a hard day: an SOS button opens a calming video straight away. A “You’re not alone” screen lists crisis lines such as 988 and Crisis Text Line, plus emergency numbers for nine countries, each one tap away.

MIMI, the in-app assistant: users can chat with an assistant that suggests sessions from the library. It runs through a server function, so no AI keys are stored on the phone.

Content and access: audio sessions keep playing in the background, alongside video and text sessions, favourites, search and filters. The team can update the SOS video and the app’s themes without releasing a new version. Subscriptions run through RevenueCat.

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The trade-off

Check-in results are shown as personal scores and trends, not clinical labels like “moderate anxiety”. That keeps the app firmly a wellness tool and avoids frightening people who are already anxious. The cost is that a user can’t hand their results to a clinician as a formal screening. We accepted that, and pointed anyone in real difficulty to the crisis resources instead.

Outcome

MetricValueSourceDate
Guided journey length8 weeksApp sourceJun 2026
Wellbeing areas measured6App sourceJun 2026
Check-in cycleEvery 15 daysApp sourceJun 2026
Countries with one-tap emergency numbers9App sourceJun 2026
Languages2 (English, French)App sourceJun 2026
Commits928Repository historyOct 2025 to Jun 2026
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12 years40+ shipped products6 industries
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