Hobbes
Hobbes is a wellness coach that helps busy people build healthy habits. Launching Spring 2026.

Notes On Building Hobbes

19
May

Launch Day

Hobbes is live. You can download it on the App Store and on Google Play. For anyone who joined this
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28
Apr

A Habit Coach

On track for launch next week (unless app store reviewers deem otherwise) Most nutrition apps begin and end at calorie
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20
Apr

UI in AI

Launching in about 2 weeks. In my last post, I wrote about Hobbes' text chat and why natural language
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30
Mar

Chat with Hobbes

Hobbes launches in about 4 weeks. Between now and then, I want to share how the app works and the
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20
Mar

Alive

Are You Alive? That's been the most common question I've heard recently. Fair enough, it'
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09
Jul

Marketing

At Google, I helped launch Google Hotel Search. We quietly turned it on for 1% of searches with no announcement,
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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
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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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