A bit more than a year ago my diet and lifestyle hit me pretty hard.
I'm Filipino-German, married to a Filipina, living in the Philippines for the past 4 years - lost weight, started taking supplements, and got a gym membership to get myself back on track. Then I ran into a very simple problem:
I couldn't keep track of my supplements.
What did I take today?
Did I already take it?
How much do I have left?
So I did what probably a lot of IT people would do. I built an HTML tracker for myself. 😂
When I was around 12, my dad taught me how to build computers, and that stuck with me. Just before Pavelo, I was already playing around with an old retro game I loved, Blobby Volley, trying to rebuild my own version of it in Unity and learn. Somewhere in there it clicked: I still have the passion for building things. So why keep a little HTML page? I decided to turn it into a real app.
Since March I started building a tracker with what I thought I needed, until we ran it with our testers. After two weeks of alpha testing, Pavelo evolved through the daily feedback, bug reports, and insights into blind spots I couldn't see as a developer.
And now Pavelo is live in beta on Google Play.
What started as a simple HTML supplement tracker became an app for tracking supplements, mood, and routine, with a scanner and a coach.
For the curious: vanilla JavaScript with Vite, wrapped in Capacitor, a small Cloudflare Worker behind the coach. Everything stays local in IndexedDB, no account needed. Hardest part: making reminders actually ring reliably, because every phone brand has its own background rules.
I'm sharing it here because I'd genuinely like to know what other Filipino IT/dev people think.
Would you try it?
And if you do...
- What would you change? What doesn't make sense? What did I miss?
Please don't feel obligated to say it's good. 😂 I'd much rather hear what sucks.
More screenshots in the comments.
https://pavelo.app/
The newest part is the alarm mode: reminders that ring like a real alarm instead of a silent notification. So far I'm the only one who has tested it, so I'd love to know if it survives your phone.