MeTime
Mental-health AI assistant
A mental-health AI assistant built on OpenAI APIs — mindfulness prompts, guided meditation, and supportive conversations to help navigate stress.
Role
Founder · Product & Engineering
Timeline
Dec 2023 — Present
Status
Open-source
Category
Wellbeing AI
The problem
Mental-health tools either feel clinical or gimmicky. I wanted a companion I'd actually use daily — mindfulness prompts, guided meditation, and supportive conversations with the right tone.
Approach
Built a personal AI companion on OpenAI APIs with safety-first prompts, structured session flows, and an emphasis on warmth over clinical language.
Outcome
A working mental-health AI assistant I actively use — and have shared with peers to help them navigate stress and build resilience.
Architecture highlights
- Python + OpenAI API
- Streamlit front-end for rapid iteration
- Prompt library for mindfulness, meditation, stress-navigation
Decisions & tradeoffs
Personal wellbeing, not clinical replacement
Drew a firm boundary between supportive companion and medical tool — the prompts, disclaimers, and tone all reflect that.
Tech stack
Reflection
The best personal AI projects solve real problems you experience every day. MeTime is small, focused, and genuinely useful — which is all I wanted it to be.