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tubignaaso commented on Show HN: Dots: a bullet journal I built to understand my migraines dotsjournal.app/... · Posted by u/tubignaaso

pestatije · a day ago

does it work? id say its the food but IANAD...sugar it is for me anyway

tubignaaso · a day ago

It’s certainly helped me find specific triggers. Usually if I’m not getting enough sleep or have high periods of stress. That’s when I know it’s time to slow down and rest for a day or two.

Posted by u/tubignaaso a day ago

Show HN: Dots: a bullet journal I built to understand my migraines dotsjournal.app/...

tubignaaso commented on Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? · Posted by u/_1tan

ekkeke · a month ago

I work on low(ish) latency trading systems in FX. FIX is the standard communication protocol and familiarity with it is essential for me. Here you can look up the standard message types and tag values: https://fiximate.fixtrading.org/

They also have docs for the standard message flows you can expect during trading. I use it regularly.

tubignaaso · a month ago

Also work in the FX space and could never find a good FIX specification resource. Always had to rely on whatever the broker shared with us, but it always felt incomplete. This is a super useful resource. Thanks for sharing!

tubignaaso commented on Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World booksbypeople.org/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

argomo · 2 months ago

Ugh, capitalism monifies yet another problem it created.

tubignaaso · 2 months ago

I’m curious why you see this as a problem created by capitalism, rather than another cause?

tubignaaso commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) · Posted by u/david927

tubignaaso · 2 months ago

Having migraines on and off the past few months, I wanted a way to try and narrow down triggers. All the existing apps out there were overly complicated. So I built something simpler.

https://dotsjournal.app

It’s an iOS app to help tracking events and stats about my day as simple dots. How many cups of coffee? Did I take my supplements? How did I sleep? Did I have a migraine? Think of it like a digital bullet journal.

Then visualizing all those dots together helps me see patterns and correlations. It’s helped me cut down my occurrence of migraines significantly. I’m still just in the public beta phase but looking forward to a full release fairly soon.

Would love to hear more feedback on how to improve the app!

tubignaaso commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

binarymax · 3 months ago

Best of luck and wish I had something like this a while back. Took me 4 years to figure out my triggers and one of them was pure luck.

tubignaaso · 3 months ago

Oof, 4 years living with that, I’m so sorry! It’s been so frustrating not knowing when/if I’ll have one, regaining some amount of control eases the pain a bit.

tubignaaso commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

specialist · 3 months ago

> some rows of events you want to track

Neat.

I also created a grid for habit tracking (for chronic pain mgmt). Day of month across the top, all the things I'm supposed to do along the side. Something to share and discuss with my care providers.

Mine's just a spreadsheet that I tweak and print every month. (Then added to my discbound clipboard organizer, that I bring everywhere.)

I haven't had the gumption to digitize my effort. I really like the physical check lists. Though I've wondered how a hybrid solution might work. eg vital signs added automatically to digital version via Health.app. eg scan printed copy and magically fill in the digital version.

I look forward to seeing your app.

tubignaaso · 3 months ago

That’s precisely how I started too! But opening the spreadsheet on my phone to try and log something got to be tedious. Especially while actively having a migraine. I figured an app could ease the difficulty a lot.

I appreciate your interest!

tubignaaso commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

tubignaaso · 3 months ago

I’ve been suffering from migraines for the past year and the health system hasn’t been too helpful in diagnosing why. I’ve got some meds, but they’re expensive and not without side effects. So I’m building an app to try and figure out how to avoid the triggers in the first place.

https://dotsjournal.app

Sort of like a digital bullet journal. You setup some rows of events you want to track, then just tap for when/if that events happens. It’s already helped me spot certain triggers for my migraines, which I can now minimize. My wife has been finding it helpful to diagnose sleep problems. I think it might be super helpful to others with trying to understand lifestyle choices and how it impacts their wellbeing.

About to roll out the beta. Hoping to have a full release by the end of the year.

It’s my first iOS app in 8 years! Learning SwiftUI after UIKit has been quite the shift.

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tubignaaso · 8 months ago

I’d be interested to try it but it seems you have to sign up to a paid plan just to see how well it works. Some sample videos associated with each voice might be a good idea.

tubignaaso commented on Therapy chatbot trial yields mental health benefits home.dartmouth.edu/news/2... · Posted by u/geox

tubignaaso · 9 months ago

Interesting results, and I’m glad these folks were able to find relief. I just feel there’s also something deeply important about the emotional and non-verbal connection you have between patient and clinician that I just can’t see AI being able to replicate.

There’s something about another human being caring about my problems, even if it is just because that’s their job, that makes more difference to me than saying the right sequence of words to help me feel better.

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