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After a year of late nights, my Stoic journaling app is about a week from launch. You can try the core of it for free, right now, no signup.

I'm a former wrestler turned analyst who codes at night. For a while now I've been building Lumis, an app where you actually talk to Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus about whatever is weighing on you, and they answer in their own voice. Not quotes. Not affirmations. A real reply to the real thing.

I built it because I needed it. The noise was endless and my discipline kept slipping, and the Stoics were the one place my head went quiet. So I put them somewhere I could reach at 11pm.

It hits the App Store in about a week. Before it does, the core is already live and free on the site, no account, no email gate. Ask one of them an honest question and see what comes back: lumis.quest

What I'd actually love from you: tell me if the reply lands, or if it reads like a fortune cookie. That gap is the whole thing I've been fighting. And roast the landing page if it deserves it. I'll be in the comments all day.

Posted Jun 4, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

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