NextState

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  Start the day by practicing the future version of yourself.

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  Imagine your desired future and make it feel real.

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  Feel the emotion of already living your intended future.

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  Turn your intention into one clear action for today.

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  Find your next step with personalized daily guidance.

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  Notice meaningful thoughts, feelings, and moments throughout the day.

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  Make your practice visible by tracking intentions and actions.

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  Become the person you are practicing to be.

Why I Built NextState

I have spent more than a decade building and running technology companies. For a long time, I believed the answer to a better life was simple: work harder, learn more, and keep moving forward.

But at some point, I realized something was missing...

There was so much information everywhere about success, happiness, mindset, spirituality, productivity, and personal growth and yet the more I searched, the more complicated life seemed to become. People were working hard, achieving things, and still feeling lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected from the life they actually wanted.

I started looking for answers myself.

I explored different systems, including astrology, numerology, name and mobile-number practices, and other approaches to understanding life and personal direction. Some ideas were interesting, but I kept coming back to the same question:

What can a person actually practice every day to move toward the life they want to live?

That question eventually led me to manifestation.

I spent roughly two years studying books, different schools of thought, teachers, and most importantly, experimenting with the ideas in my own life. I found something interesting: underneath all the different terminology and interpretations, there was a much simpler idea.

It was not just about writing an affirmation or imagining something once and waiting for it to happen.

For me, the useful part was learning to repeatedly practice the way I wanted to think, feel, choose, act, give, and reflect throughout the day.

That became the foundation of NextState.

From a personal experiment to a product

I originally built NextState MVP for myself.

I wanted something that could take the ideas I had been studying and turn them into a simple daily practice instead of leaving them as something I only read about.

The first version was personal and imperfect. I used it repeatedly, changed the process, experimented with different techniques, and gradually developed the seven-part practice that became the foundation of the app:

Regulate → Rehearse → Feel → Choose → Act → Give → Reflect

I then started sharing it with my siblings and relatives.

Their feedback was the turning point.

They were not interested in another complicated personal-development system. What they responded to was having something simple that told them what to practice, helped them connect it to their intention, and gave them a way to notice what happened in real life.

That made me realize that I might not be solving only my own problem.

What I learned

The biggest lesson from building NextState was that information is not the same as practice.

There is no shortage of books, videos, podcasts, courses, affirmations, and advice about creating a better life. The challenge is turning all of that information into something a person can actually do every day.

So I designed NextState around practice rather than information.

The app guides a person through a personalized daily journey:

• regulate before beginning
• rehearse the person they want to become
• connect with the feeling they want to cultivate
• choose the thought they want to live from
• take an aligned action
• give something during the day
• reflect on what they experienced

The goal is not to promise that a person can simply think something and make it appear.

The goal is to help people practice living differently today.

Why I am sharing it

NextState started as something I built for myself.

Then it became something my family used.

Now I want to see what happens when people outside my circle use it.

I built NextState because I believe many people do not need more information telling them how to live. They need a simple way to practice the life they already know they want.

This Shipaton is my opportunity to take something that started as a personal experiment and put it in the hands of real users.

Stop manifesting. Start practicing.

Built With

• eas
• expo-av
• expo-haptics
• expo-linear-gradient
• expo-notifications
• expo-splash-screen
• hook
• lucide
• manrope
• native
• playfair
• postgresql
• posthog
• react
• reanimated
• revenuecat
• router
• supabase
• tanstack
• typescript
• zod
• zustand