💡 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 — 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻. When I was studying design at UPROCK, I had to choose a diploma topic for creating a mobile app. Classics of the genre: e-commerce, food delivery, hotel booking. Beautiful. Safe. Clear. And absolutely abstract. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆. Decided to solve my own problem. I regularly start courses of vitamins and dietary supplements: immunity boosting, energy, recovery. And every time the scenario is the same: I start with motivation, then skip a couple of days, get confused, and in the end, I give up. I tried ready-made apps, but deleted them after a week. 🤯 Some require half an hour for setup — as if I'm implementing an ERP in a major bank, not taking magnesium. Others look as if they got stuck in 2015. 🤔 And at some point, I caught myself on a simple thought: Why waste time on a made-up concept if I can design a product that I really need? ✨ 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱. Initially, everything was maximally selfish. To make a convenient tracker to complete the course from start to finish. Screens. Logic. Reminders. I thought I was making just a "smart alarm clock for pills". 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. And it completely changed my perception of what this product could become. About how a personal project stopped being just a diploma work, I will tell in the next post. ❓ Did you have an idea that was born out of personal pain and eventually grew into something bigger? Write in the comments — interesting to see what resonates.