SaaS
gurumind.ai
Live siteA subscription platform offering a 90-day mindfulness program, AI wisdom coach, and curated book summaries tied to meditation traditions.
Mindfulness apps tend to be either surface-level or academically dense. gurumind.ai occupies the gap: a structured 90-day curriculum grounded in Stoicism, Buddhism, and Taoism, with an AI coach that adapts to exactly where you are in the program — not a generic chatbot, but a guide that knows your progress.
90+
Program lessons
5
Philosophical traditions
Magic link
Auth method
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The Problem
Mindfulness apps are either overly generic (Headspace) or academically inaccessible. There was a gap for something that bridges serious philosophical traditions — Stoicism, Buddhism, Taoism — with practical daily practice, guided by AI rather than a rigid curriculum.
The Process
Designed a 90-day program model in Postgres: phases → lessons → user progress tracking. Built an AI coach endpoint that receives program context and adapts its guidance to the user's current phase. The tradition DNA quiz matches new users to a starting philosophy and generates a personalized onboarding path.
The Solution
A subscription SaaS with a structured 90-day program system, AI wisdom coach that adapts to user progress, curated book summaries across five philosophical traditions, and a tradition-matching quiz for onboarding.
What Was Built
- 90-day program schema: phases, lessons, user progress
- AI coach endpoint with program-context-aware prompting
- Book summary library with tradition tagging
- Magic link auth via NextAuth + PostgresAdapter
- Freemium gate: free tier → Guru subscription
Feature Breakdown
Core Program
- 90-day curriculum with phases, lessons, and completion tracking
- AI wisdom coach with program-context-aware prompting
- Tradition DNA quiz that matches users to a starting philosophy
- Personalized onboarding path generated from quiz results
Learning Tools
- Curated book summary library across 5 philosophical traditions
- Tradition tagging for cross-philosophy browsing
- Phase-gated content that unlocks as users advance
- Deep Dive Mode per book (paid tier)
Growth & Retention
- Freemium gate: free tier → Guru subscription via Stripe
- Magic link auth via NextAuth v5 + PostgresAdapter
- Weekly insight digest email via Resend
- Post-session AI journal prompts
Tech Stack
Source Code
Private repository
Behind the Build
Using raw SQL instead of Prisma for gurumind was a deliberate call — the schema has a column naming mismatch that Prisma couldn't handle cleanly without migrations that would break the existing NextAuth adapter. Sometimes the ORM gets in the way. The magic link auth flow also required a custom PostgresAdapter setup that took longer than expected.