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Building Thrive, out loud.

The ideas, mistakes, breakthroughs and questions behind building a different kind of health companion for people living with endometriosis.

I’m building Thrive during maternity leave, inspired by my own experience of endometriosis and years of trying to piece together the bigger picture of my health. This is where I’m documenting the journey as it happens.

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Building intelligence

12 September 2026 · 6 min read

Thrive is becoming less about asking people to track more, and more about understanding what they naturally share — remembering context, learning what matters to them and helping uncover patterns across cycles.

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20 June 2026 · 2 min read

Building an app during nap time

Three months into maternity leave, I finally feel like part of my brain is waking up again — so I started building the health companion I always wished existed.

I don't want to build another symptom tracker

Tracking symptoms is easy. Understanding what surrounds them — your cycle, sleep, food, movement, treatments and everything else happening in your life — is much harder. This is the point where building Thrive stopped being about screens and started being about context.

Building intelligence

Thrive is becoming less about asking people to track more, and more about understanding what they naturally share — remembering context, learning what matters to them and helping uncover patterns across cycles.

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