Following the creation of my weather forecast website, I decided to pivot and work on another project because of my passion for health and fitness combined with the technical expertise I developed creating Your Weather Connection.
This led to the creation of Your Wellness Manager, a sort of swiss army knife of a health and wellness app. It offers users the option of tracking their nutrition, workouts, keeping a sleep log, journal, tracking alcohol consumption, and limiting time on social media.
Here’s a summary of all the major things I did with this:
- Designed a user-friendly menu that is unique but familiar to the style of other health and wellness apps.
- Created a unique tool for managing time on social media by basically letting a person lock up their passwords in a digital vault and only allowing access to the passwords after an amount of time specified by the user.
- Worked with the non-profit LegalCORPS MN to get free advice from patent attorneys for filing for a patent and achieving patent-pending status on my social media time management tool.
- Made Your Wellness Manager user-friendly on iOS, Android, and any other platform that has a web browser. There should be an official iPhone/Android app on the app stores in a few more months, likely by early 2025. The app can currently be directly installed (sign up online, then following in-app instructions) on any device as well.
- Created a freemium model where users can sign up and use a free, ad-supported version of the app with limited capabilities and seamlessly upgrade to the premium version by paying a monthly fee.
- Added a nutrition label scanner in December 2024 – at this time it just picks up calories. I am experimenting with adding in the ability to scan a barcode, too.
2025 Update
Recently, in February 2025 my web hosting company made some infrastructure changes that have caused some serious issues with the availability of the Your Wellness Manager app. Now, something on my to-do list is moving the app over to the free version of the Oracle VPS to see if that is hopefully better. Now I run into issues like this one multiple times per day:
Although disconnecting Cloudflare seemed to fix the 521 issues for yourweatherconnection.com, when I tried the same thing with Your Wellness Manager, everything completely quit working so my best option is to just keep things as they are until I can move to this: Always Free Resources.