Inside Hapi #1: Our personalised wellbeing journey begins 💡🚀

Last week we announced the next episode at Hapi, which outlines our plan to build a virtual wellbeing coach using artificial intelligence.

As part of the new pivot, we’re going to be sharing our journey on a fortnightly basis, where we will walk through what we’re working on internally to provide everyone with more frequent updates! It’s also an effort for us to be far more transparent about what we do!

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Defining our first version:

In the world of early stage companies you may have heard the term MVP before, an acronym for “Minimum Viable Product”, coined by Eric Ries as part of the Lean Startup Methodology.

An MVP is simply the most basic version of your product that can provide value to people. Instead of spending 12-months building out an entire system that you aren’t sure people will benefit from, instead spend a month building a far simpler version and testing to see if people will actually use it (aka validation and establishing product market fit).

We’re going to be following Andrew Chen’s MDP (Minimum Desirable Product) a little more religiously, as we’re big fans of user-centred design at Hapi. This protocol focuses on quantifying whether our product provides people with real value using a set of engagement metrics, as opposed to gauging whether our service is ‘viable’ simply by means of revenue.

What will our first version be?

The first version of our new service will be a simple online wellbeing report that generates an overall wellbeing score for you.

This is both a truly minimal version of our wellbeing score concept, as well as being a version that is feasible from a technical point of view (given we don’t have an in-house software engineer yet, we’re somewhat limited!).

Wellbeing report concept:

Below is a sneak peak of the wellbeing report design we’re working on.

Our goal is to build a simple quiz that asks a series of general health-related questions, runs a few calculations and generates a neat little report.

Report features:

Below are the features that we plan to release in the first version or two of the wellbeing report.

1. An overall wellbeing score which is constituted by 6 sub-scores (sleep, nutrition, fitness, cognition, happiness and lifespan).
2. Wellbeing breakdown by category (to understand what areas of your overall health you should focus on optimising).
3. Scorecards and insights (a full breakdown of each category with specific insights, i.e. “You have a sleep latency problem”).
4. Recommendations (evidence-based lifestyle interventions, determined by how you scored in each category).
5. Ability to save the report for later viewing via a unique URL.

What’s next?

Here’s what we’re working on in the coming fortnight:

1. Finalise report interface design.
2. Finalise questions used in the initial quiz.
3. Create formulas to translate quiz results into scores.
4. Outline tech stack that will be used to build our MVP.
5. Build out front-end of report.
6. Basic live-demo of the quiz + report.

Thanks for tuning into the first edition of inside Hapi! Until next time!

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Keep it optimised peeps 😀

— The Hapi team.