Tell me where it hurts now

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  Personal Pain maps

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  Ask questions to AI about your painmap

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  Anatomically accurate muscular models

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  File and Folder Management

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  Clinics have their own unique URL

Inspiration

I started TellMeWhereItHurtsNow.com because describing pain was really weird, especially when its in a place you cant reach. That was me when I was trying to explain to my massage therapist where I wanted her to focus on. Then I saw firsthand how tough it is for people to communicate exactly what's bothering them to therapists or doctors using just words just like I did. It always felt like something critical was getting lost in translation. I thought, why can't we just point and show it instead?

How I Built the Project

Standing on the top shoulders of giants, I built this with the amazing work from kovac's amazing library, Supabase for the backend magic, and a lot of late-night head banging coding. Everything's integrated tightly so anyone can mark their pain areas directly on a 3D body model, no accounts or complicated sign-ups needed. You just click, highlight, and share.

The coolest part was getting direct feedback from the Reddit community (shout out to r/ChronicPain and r/Backpain). They shaped the project immensely early on and reminded me why I started in the first place.

Hackathon Superpower

For this hackathon, I've pushed myself to finally finish a feature I've been wanting for quite some time/ I’ve supercharged the tool with AI-powered Perplexity search. Now, when you highlight a painful area on the 3D model, the app taps directly into Perplexity’s API to scour the internet for related articles, forum discussions, studies, and other content with each piece tailored to that exact spot you marked. This service doesn't aim to diagnose or cure your problem. It simply is a way for you to find the most relatable content for your specific pain needs. We leave the healing to the true experts and their content.

Challenges

Balancing simplicity with functionality was a constant battle. How much detail is too much detail when someone's in pain? Another challenge was figuring out a seamless way for clinics to integrate this into their intake process without friction.

Also, outreach and visibility are tougher than they seem. Coding feels natural, but talking about my work publicly took some getting used to.

Built With

• node.js
• supabase
• three.js
• vite