Aura

Inspiration

The Wellness Gap

Studies show that approximately 58% of women worldwide cannot correctly name all four phases of the menstrual cycle, highlighting a widespread gap in menstrual health education (Hogan, 2025). Despite the menstrual cycle being recognized by medical organizations as a vital sign of overall health, most women are never taught how hormonal shifts affect energy, metabolism, mood, and physical performance.

While there is growing online advice on what to eat or how to exercise during a period, this guidance is often generic. In reality, each phase of the menstrual cycle has different biological needs, which are further influenced by conditions such as PCOS, thyroid, and Endometriosis disorders.

Existing apps typically stop at telling users what day of their cycle they are on. They rarely explain what that phase means or what actions to take, leaving women without practical, personalized support.

A Step Toward Change

Manually researching what to eat, how to exercise, or when to rest based on changing hormones is time-consuming and unrealistic.

Aura simplifies this process by providing daily, personalized nutrition and exercise recommendations that adapt to each user’s cycle, symptoms, and health conditions. By leveraging AI and automation, Aura removes the guesswork from wellness and empowers women to make confident, informed decisions about their health.

What It Does

Features

Aura supports women’s health through practical, accessible tools:

Daily personalized meal and nutrition suggestions
Phase-specific workouts and recovery plans
AI-generated wellness insights and explanations
Lifestyle guidance for hormonal conditions such as PCOS, thyroid, and Endometriosis disorders
Cycle phase awareness without overwhelming tracking
A simple, user-friendly dashboard that translates science into action

Instead of just tracking periods, Aura answers:

“What should I do today to feel my best?”

Everyday Impact

Aura translates research into everyday behavior.

By aligning diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices with hormonal changes, users can:

Reduce fatigue and cramps
Improve energy and focus
Manage cravings and mood swings
Better understand their bodies

Our goal is to close the women’s health education gap and make evidence-based wellness guidance accessible to everyone.

Tech Stack - How We Built It

Gemini Studio AI – front-end design and prototyping
React – front-end user interface
Node.js – back-end and API handling
Supabase (PostgreSQL) – authentication and database storage
GitHub + VS Code – collaboration and version control
Vite / React Native tooling – fast development and testing

Challenges We Ran Into

Structuring the project from an empty repository
Managing limited free Gemini API tokens efficiently
Handling inconsistencies in AI-generated outputs
Configuring Supabase authentication and database schemas to securely store cycles, symptoms, and notes
Designing a health-focused interface that remained simple and not overwhelming

Working with Supabase in particular required significant debugging and schema design to ensure reliable data retrieval and storage.

Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

The Product

We successfully built a fully functional app that addresses a real and overlooked gap in women’s health. Aura goes beyond tracking and provides actionable, daily guidance, which many existing apps fail to deliver.

Accessibility

We’re especially proud of creating a clean, user-friendly experience that makes complex hormonal science easy to understand.

Our Growth

As a team, we quickly learned new tools, integrated AI into a live application, and shipped a complete product within a short time frame.

What We Learned

Through building Aura, we learned:

How to integrate a generative AI API into a real-world app
How to design responsibly for health and wellness
How to use Supabase and backend services effectively
How to collaborate using GitHub in a fast-paced environment

On a personal level, we also gained a deeper understanding of menstrual and hormonal health. This project taught us both technical skills and health literacy, making the experience especially meaningful.