GutTracking
A clean, friendly gut-health tracker built and launched as a self-initiated project. The kind of build that happens when there's no client brief, just a real everyday problem worth solving and full creative control.
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- Project type
- Self-initiated app build
- Role
- Design, build, copywriting, hosting
- Stack
- HTML, CSS, JS on Netlify
- Key features
- Meal logging, water tracking, post-meal check-ins
- Account required
- None, quick daily tracking
- Status
- Live at guttracking.netlify.app
The Challenge
Tracking how food affects your gut usually means a clunky app stuffed with calorie counters, macros, and features you don't want, or a paper notebook that's easy to forget. The actual job, "what did I eat, how much water did I drink, and how is it sitting?", should take a few taps and nothing more. GutTracking started as a question: what would a gentle, focused gut-health tracker look like if it only did the things that actually matter?
The Approach
- One clear daily view: the whole day lives on a single "Today" screen so logging never requires digging through menus.
- Quick add for everything: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks are one tap away, lowering the friction that makes people quit tracking apps.
- Water tracking built in: a simple ring shows progress toward a daily goal, because hydration is part of the gut-health picture.
- Post-meal check-ins: the part most trackers skip: recording how a meal is actually sitting afterward, so patterns become visible over time.
- Soft, friendly design: calm colors and rounded shapes keep the experience encouraging rather than clinical, so daily tracking feels light.
The Result
GutTracking is live and free to use. Beyond the app itself, it doubles as proof of capability, this is what gets built when there's no client brief, no agency politics, and no budget cap. Clients hiring me for a small business site can look at GutTracking and see I'm comfortable shipping a real, interactive product, not just a homepage and a contact form.
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