Further development of a Mindfulness App

Q2/2023

App
Three smartphones displaying a mindfulness app interface with options for meditation, garden, and growth activities.

The Dipl. Psychologist Ariane Schmidt had the vision in 2022 to develop a unique meditation and mindfulness app. In collaboration with a Product Owner who brought expertise in digital product and app development, the app JETZT und HIER was created in 2023, distinguished by the following features:

  • Clear Focus: While other apps overwhelm with a flood of content, NOW and HERE offers a clearly defined mindfulness topic week after week.
  • Expertise & Quality: The meditations and content were developed by experienced mindfulness trainers and clinical psychologists.
  • Lifetime Access: No monthly fees. Pay once and gain lifetime access to all current and future content.

In the initial phase, the Product Owner developed the app using the Flutter Framework FlutterFlow and the backend service Firebase. This allowed for a rapid implementation of core functions in close cooperation with Ariane Schmidt.

With the increasing complexity of the app and growing customization requests that exceeded the capabilities of FlutterFlow, I joined in June 2023 as a freelancer for the further development of the app at the code level. My main tasks involved optimizing and expanding the Dart code and making adjustments in the Node.js backend to prepare the app for its app store and play store launch in November 2023.

Since the launch, I have been working on the further development of the app to continually improve the user experience and implement new features.