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I built a free AI wellness companion for UAE expats — Lumi is live 🌿
Hey everyone — I just launched Find Your Reset and would love some eyes on it from founders who get the early stage grind.
What I built and who it's for:
Lumi is a free AI daily companion for expats living in the UAE. Every morning she sends a warm personal reset, a guided audio practice, and a space to log small wins. No app, lives in Telegram, 2 minutes to start.
What was hardest to get right:
The tone. Every wellness app sounds either clinical or fake-cheerful. Getting Lumi to feel like a genuinely caring friend — not a bot, not a therapist — took more iteration than any feature.
What I need support with:
Honest feedback on retention. My early users say they love it — but most don't come back daily. I haven't cracked the habit trigger yet.
The question I'd love a thread on:
When you hear "daily wellness habit" — what's the real reason you've never stuck with one? Not the excuse you tell yourself. The actual reason.
Comments (3)
Sameer, why launching AI companion as a website and not mobile app? 🤔
Great question! 🤔 We actually chose web-first intentionally.
For something like daily wellbeing, we didn’t want another app that people download, use for 3 days and then forget about. 😄
With a website, there’s no download, no storage commitment, no app-store friction and no subscription. You can simply open Lumi when you need a reset.
We’re also using this stage to learn from real users before investing heavily in a native iOS/Android experience.
If the community tells us an app would make Lumi more useful, we’ll absolutely consider building one. 🌿
For now, our philosophy is simple: make the reset easier to access, not another thing people have to maintain. ❤️
↳ Replying to Sameer Veragiwala
Can I use voice to talk to Lumi or at this time chat only? 🤔
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