Akasan
Project Snapshot
Timeline
Apr 2026 - May 2026
Delivery Time
8 weeks
Price
$20,500
Industry
Productivity, Wellness, AI Tools, Personal Growth, SaaS
Client
A solo founder based in Montreal, Canada
Platforms
What the App Does
Akasan is an app that combines your to-do lists, habit tracking, finances, notes, mood logs, and health information into one connected system. Instead of switching between separate apps throughout your day, you open one place where all these pieces of your life are stored together. The app runs quietly in the background, looking for patterns across everything you've entered, like noticing when certain tasks affect your mood or when spending correlates with stress. It then surfaces these connections to help you understand what's actually happening in your daily life.
- Tracks tasks, habits, money, notes, mood, and health all in the same place
- Connects information across categories automatically without you doing extra work
- Identifies patterns between different parts of your life, like recurring behaviors or correlations
- Shows you insights based on the connections it finds in your data
- Eliminates the need to manage and check multiple separate productivity and tracking apps
It's a unified system that replaces the typical scattered collection of single-purpose apps most people rely on.
The Challenge
People who are actively trying to improve their lives face a fragmentation problem. They use separate apps for different aspects of self-improvement: one tracks tasks, another monitors habits, a third manages budgets, and maybe a fourth holds journal entries. These tools don't communicate with each other, so the person must mentally synthesize all this information themselves, every single day, to understand what they should actually focus on.
- Users carry the cognitive burden of connecting their own data across multiple disconnected systems
- Each app operates in isolation without awareness of what's happening in the others
- Daily decision-making requires manual mental integration of scattered information
- The sustained effort needed to maintain this synthesis causes people to abandon their routines over time
- There was no single system that could see across all dimensions of someone's life improvement efforts
The core problem was that the integration work fell entirely on the user, creating an exhausting overhead that undermined the very habits they were trying to build.
The Approach
The build began with a clickable prototype of the entire application so the founder could experience the full user flow before committing to actual development. Instead of building everything at once, the product is being constructed in discrete stages, with each stage requiring direct founder review and approval before the next begins. Within each stage, the team deliberately tackles the most technically complex component first to surface difficult problems early in the process rather than during later integration.
- The specialist life-tracking tools are being built sequentially, not in parallel
- The cycle tracker was identified as the most complex tool and was completed first
- Each completed stage must pass founder approval before development continues
- The remaining tracking tools are still in active development
- Hard problems are intentionally front-loaded in each build stage to avoid late-stage surprises
The approach prioritizes risk reduction through staged delivery and complexity-first sequencing.
Key Features
Tech Stack
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