Twily - audio-first health app for breastpumping moms
AI-guided postpartum stress recovery that supports maternal wellbeing and breastfeeding success.
story
This project started as an attempt to fix my own problem, turned into a passion project, and now is turning into an actual company with scientific backing. The past year’s been pretty crazy. Twily was born from sheer maternal desperation, zero sleep, and a crying newborn (mine) whose stress made my pre-existing stress worse, and wrecked my cardiac, dental and mental health in the process. I looked for a digital solution for regulating stress/nervous system during breast pumping, nothing existed, so I built it by first playing around in Voiceflow, and then ran into Lovable, so of course then was suddenly in depths of Supabase, Realtime, ElevenLabs and a merry-go-round of edge functions I could hardly even pronounce. Now, Twily is a low-stimulation, audio-first postpartum recovery companion that helps mothers regulate stress, prepare for rest, and battle the emotional overload while pumping. I built a diagnosis engine, then a 250+ exercise contact library based on research on disciplines that are actually proven to help your hormonal and nervous system states. I now spend 40% of my life debugging WebSockets. And like an idiot, left the main feature (TTS) as the last feature to connect, and have wasted the past 2 months trying to get the assistant to speak, while Lovable keeps forgetting the basic features the further we go. That’s a rant for another day. What the actual product does • AI-driven conversational guidance during pumping sessions • Dynamic stress-regulation exercises (breathwork, grounding, micro-somatics) • Personalized session logic built around maternal stress biology • A diagnostic check-in system that doesn’t overwhelm a sleep-deprived mother • All with no visuals, because mothers pumping at 3 a.m. do NOT want UI noise Marketing site (also built with Lovable) is online at www.twily.app, the web app is debugging short of being published too. If you want to eventually test it, or collaborate, I’d love to connect!