Consumer App

Hara

A calm personal tracking app designed to help meals, symptoms and gut changes become easier to record, review and understand.

A simple personal gut health diary for tracking meals, symptoms and daily context in one private place.

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Hara

The Challenge

Gut symptoms can be difficult to understand because the cause is not always obvious at the moment something is eaten.

Bloating, pain or discomfort may appear later in the day, making it hard to remember what happened, what was eaten and what else might have affected the body at the time.

The challenge was to create a simple product that could support quick logging without pretending to diagnose anything.

"A calm way to notice patterns in eating."

What We Built

The approach was to build around daily behaviour first. The app does not try to become a full health platform. It starts with the smallest useful action: record what was eaten and how the body felt around it. That keeps the product low-friction and personal. It also leaves space for the app to grow through real use, rather than assuming every feature at the beginning.

  • Lovable app build
  • TanStack application structure
  • Supabase authentication and data storage
  • Verified login for personal access
  • Meal tracking
  • Symptom tracking
  • Mood, sleep, stress and medication context
  • Freeform notes
  • Simple summary view
  • Private subdomain deployment
  • Working MVP concept for personal use

Outcome

Hara turns a personal health concern into a working product. It creates a simple place to track what was eaten, how the body responded and what other daily factors may have played a part. The app is not designed to diagnose or treat anything, but it can create a clearer record that may help with personal reflection or future conversations with a healthcare professional. The project also gives Made Grand a useful example of rapid product thinking: taking a specific problem, building a focused tool quickly and leaving room for the product to grow from real use.

  • A working personal gut health diary
  • A quick logging flow for meals and symptoms
  • A private authenticated app rather than a third-party tracking tool
  • A product base that can grow through real usage
  • A possible foundation for future AI-assisted pattern analysis
  • A clear example of building a useful MVP around one specific need

What This Included

  • Start with personal need rather than market theory
  • Keep the interface simple, calm and quick to use
  • Focus on logging meals and symptoms before deeper analytics
  • Treat privacy as part of the product, not an afterthought
  • Use authenticated accounts even while the app remains personal
  • Allow the product direction to evolve through daily use
  • Consider AI only where it may help identify possible patterns
  • Avoid medical positioning, diagnosis or treatment claims

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