Hobbes
Hobbes is an AI-powered wellness coach that helps busy people build healthy habits. Launching Fall 2025.

Notes On Building Hobbes

13
Jun

Pricing

Quick note: I will be in Bangalore for two weeks starting June 18th. If you're around and free
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23
May

AI

This one isn't a Hobbes update - more an observation about what I'm seeing, and maybe
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16
May

Calorie Counting

This is what all diet tracking app dashboards look like: the main screen shows how many calories you’ve consumed
2 min read
19
Apr

Cloud Choice

One of the choices you need to make as a startup is the cloud provider you are going to use.
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21
Mar

Focus

Preventative health is a vast space spanning diet, movement, sleep, mental health, and social connections; and there are many solutions
2 min read
07
Mar

Future Health OS

My daughter Akira is 6. I often wonder what healthcare will look like when she's an adult. Predicting
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28
Feb

How To Earn Trust

“How do I know that this app is working for me?” is a common question people ask when using health
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21
Feb

Early Lessons Learned

I have been working on Hobbes full-time for about 2 months now. I thought it may be a good time
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14
Feb

Old Habits Die Hard

I recently ran a survey across a broad swath of people across the US (using Mechanical Turk) to try to
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07
Feb

Vitamin or Pain Killer

Would you rather take a vitamin every day or pop a painkiller when the headache is unbearable? Most people choose
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