I never set out to get into writing software, building apps or any of this really. But I've always insisted on taking a very punk DIY ethos to my business, so eventually, after everything was kind of squared away, I got around to building some apps.
Over the past six years I've built a business making microdosing supplements. Starting from scratch and with a vast investment of $150 (thank you, stimulus checks), everything from that moment has been built on referrals, one satisfied customer after another. Early on I came to the realization that I could always make more product but I couldn't make more customers, so I doubled down on keeping the ones I had.
Now any business built on referrals takes on a life of its own and steers you in unexpected directions. Happily mine veered into servicing therapists and facilitators, which was really pretty damn close to a best case scenario, and a couple of years into this journey I came to the surprising realization that probably seventy percent of my clients were women.
In my experience (and it's purely anecdotal, not scientific) I found women to be far more conscious and curious about the potential healing power of what they were taking. They stayed on their protocols, asked questions, and along the way tracked how they felt. I wasn't in a business supplying weekend thrill seekers. These were my customers, and they were sophisticated.
So when it came time to make an app, after playing around with one designed as a jack of all trades, I dumped the traditional protocols and instead built one exclusively for women.
In another life I used to write comic books and the golden rule was always, don't pitch a story unless you have a new take on it, and I felt the problem with almost every existing microdosing app was they were primarily journaling apps, with a built-in alarm clock. It pings, tells you what day it is on your protocol, gives you your dose, and afterwards you get to write about it. The calendar is in charge. You're not much more than data entry.
So in my app I tried to take a different approach, and design something that would work with you. Something that started with the simple but often ignored premise that "you are the best judge of you".
With the Women's Microdose Companion you wake up, and instead of the app dictating a day and a dose, you tell it how you're actually feeling. And it shifts the dose suggestion based on how you feel.
It has separate protocols, one for cycle, one for perimenopause and menopause, because those are three different bodies asking three different questions, and treating them as one "women's health" bucket is exactly the kind of lazy thinking I wanted to steer clear of.
The app is free. There's no subscription, no upsell wall halfway through.
We publish the shopping list of supplements on the app and website but I do sell the supplement packs designed to work with the app, adaptogens, nootropics and functional mushrooms.
No proprietary blends, no miracle claims, buy it from us, or do it yourself, the app and the science behind it works either way.
Download it, run it for a week, and tell me what you think - good, bad or in between, because feedback from actual users is how I make it even better.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6771968706
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.nftp.microdose
This article is for educational purposes and isn't medical advice, and nothing here encourages the use of any substance where it is illegal. NFTP products are dietary supplements, contain no psilocybin or scheduled substances, and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Talk to your healthcare provider about what's right for you.