About TIDES

TIDES started as
something much smaller.

But once I started building it, the problem became much bigger than peptide logging.

Because peptides were only one part of the routine.

There were supplements. Sleep. Training. Recovery. Food. Hydration. Stress. Skin. Biomarkers. Different protocols. Different goals.

And every one of those things seemed to live in a different app.

One app tells you how you slept. Another tracks workouts. Another counts calories. Another handles supplements. Another gives you breathing exercises. Another tracks skincare. Another logs medication or habits.

Individually, a lot of these apps are good.

But together, the experience is fragmented, expensive and unnecessarily complicated.

You end up paying for several subscriptions while none of those products really understand the full picture of you.

That is when TIDES stopped being a peptide tracker and started becoming something much larger.

I wanted to build one system that looks at health the way it actually behaves: as something interconnected.

Yet most wellness products still treat every one of those areas like a separate category.

TIDES is built around five connected pillars: Body, Fuel, Mind, Skin and Protocol.

The idea isn’t simply to put five trackers inside one app.

The important part is that those pillars can actually speak to each other.

If your sleep deteriorates while your training load increases and your stress markers shift, those shouldn’t exist as three unrelated graphs.

They are part of the same story.

TIDES should help you understand that story.

NeuroWellness is a huge part of that

This was one of the biggest gaps I noticed in wellness technology.

Physical wellness has become incredibly sophisticated.

We measure HRV, resting heart rate, sleep stages, recovery, strain, calories, steps, respiratory rate, workouts and dozens of other physiological signals.

But when it comes to the mind, most consumer wellness products still fall into two categories.

You either get meditation and mindfulness apps, or you get products designed around clinical mental health.

There is an enormous space in between.

Very few products are trying to build that layer in depth.

That is what we’re exploring with TIDES NeuroWellness.

The goal isn’t for an app to tell you exactly how you feel.

And it definitely isn’t to diagnose you from a heart-rate graph.

The goal is to take signals that are normally scattered or invisible and make them easier to understand.

Instead of simply saying “your stress is high,” TIDES should be able to show how that stress developed through the day, what physiological signals contributed to the interpretation, what your normal baseline looks like, and how today differs from it.

And importantly, TIDES should know when it doesn’t know.

That is a principle I care about across the entire product.

If there isn’t enough data, say there isn’t enough data.

If something is estimated, show it as an estimate.

If two explanations are possible, don’t pretend one of them is fact.

Your health is too important for fake certainty.

I also didn’t want another health dashboard

There are already plenty of apps capable of telling you that your HRV was 47 ms last night.

The more interesting question is:

So what?

What does that mean relative to you?

Is it actually unusual?

What may have contributed to it?

Should it change anything about your day?

That is the layer I think health technology is still missing.

Not just showing what happened, but helping you understand what it means.

That is also where Signal comes in.

I don’t want Signal to be a generic chatbot sitting inside a wellness app.

It should understand the context TIDES already has: your sleep, your recent training, your recovery, your nutrition, your stress patterns, your routines, your goals.

Then you should be able to ask something simple like:

The difficult part isn’t generating an answer.

The difficult part is generating an answer grounded in you.

That is what we’re building toward.

And this is also why TIDES costs $7.99

One of the things that annoyed me most while building TIDES was realising how expensive the wellness stack had become.

Before long you’re spending a ridiculous amount of money every month just to understand your own health.

I could price TIDES higher. There are plenty of wellness and AI products charging considerably more.

But that would contradict why I started building it in the first place.

If TIDES can reduce the need for several separate wellness subscriptions, it shouldn’t then charge you the combined price of all of them.

Not because I think the product is worth less. Because I want the value equation to be obvious.

I’d rather build something millions of people can comfortably keep using than optimise the company around extracting the highest possible subscription price from a smaller group of users.

A sophisticated health product doesn’t need to become a luxury product.

And I think wellness technology has drifted too far in that direction.

It all started because I kept forgetting my peptide dose.

What began as a tiny personal problem exposed a much larger one.

Health information is fragmented. Wellness apps don’t communicate with each other. Important context gets lost between platforms. And the person using all of them is left trying to connect the dots themselves.

TIDES is my attempt to connect those dots.

Body. Fuel. Mind. Skin. Protocol.

Not as five isolated trackers. As one system built around one person.

You.

And somewhere underneath everything TIDES has become, there is still that original idea:

Make taking care of yourself a little easier to remember, a little easier to understand, and a lot less complicated.