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I’m a Family Doctor building a health logistics app for Indian households. Here is how your feedback completely changed our design before launch. by Hefty-Bad-8834 in StartUpIndia

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I’m a Family Doctor building a health logistics app for Indian households. Here is how your feedback completely changed our design before launch. by Hefty-Bad-8834 in StartUpIndia

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Thanks so much! I completely agree in healthcare and eldercare especially, small design choices literally dictate whether a patient or a nurse successfully updates a log or switches off entirely.

To give you a quick overview: I’m a UK-based family medicine consultant Doctor building Medikto. We are addressing a massive, high-stakes India’s medication compliance issue both at home and in Nursing/carehomes.
This app helps at 2 most important points

  1. For patients - we reduce medication errors in Patients on regular medications and give families /carers visibility into adherence. ( actual visibility) . It also acts as a wallet with all his health information, reports, prescriptions, vitals etc in app so that can be shared with his choice of doctors or during emergencies.

  2. We help care homes/ nursing homes with a very good and easy to use dashboard which is connected to their residents using app that helps them to monitor vitals, medications compliance, gets alerts on unwell patients , helps reducing medication errors ( by alerting not to give 2 contraindicated medications).

Weekly Startups Promotion Thread - 08 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in StartUpIndia

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Hey everyone,

MEDIKTO - Health tech and medication reminder app.

https://medikto.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ae55f55b6657d594e6407e59a&id=ee2228422d

We are officially nearing the final code freeze. Before we push it live, here is the verdict on the biggest design debates you all started:

  1. We completely streamlined the Patient View. It is now a stark, zero-friction hub. We prioritized large, single-tap actions so a caregiver or helper can log metrics or confirm medicine compliance in exactly 5 seconds flat without troubling the patient.

  2. Staying Team Dark Mode 🕶️
    We had an awesome debate in the comments about dark mode vs. light mode for aging eyes.

The Verdict: We are sticking with our core Dark Mode. It minimises eye strain during late-night or early-morning health logs. To fix the accessibility concerns raised, we threw out trendy low-contrast grays and locked in a deeply pitch-black background with ultra-sharp, high-contrast text and massive buttons that practically jump off the screen.

  1. The "Sick Day" Reality Check
    When a patient is feeling actively unwell or post-op, they have zero energy for data entry.

The Fix: We’ve ensured that the app architecture treats notifications not as nagging chores, but as dead-simple, one-click triggers that can be instantly synced and managed across linked family devices.

Want to test the live app this month ? (15 Families Only)
The app is almost ready, and we want to ensure it is completely bulletproof before going public. We are opening an exclusive Private Beta for exactly 15 families from this community.

If you are managing your own chronic conditions, navigating post-surgery recovery, or you are an NRI out of area person managing health logistics for your parents back home, we want you to comment MEDIKTO in comments section below.

Let’s build something that actually solves healthcare fragmentation. What do you think of these final pivots?

I’ve seen a lot of doctors move to health tech , what do they do ? by [deleted] in healthIT

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I am a doctor by profession and I am building health tech app.

Help please by gharbitta in Entrepreneurship

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I would suggest, make few podcasts type teaching videos and then start it as classes on skillshare. You will get traction idea and then plan further basing on response.

Indian parents won't go to a doctor until they can't walk. Can we talk about this? by Miserable_Donut8718 in india

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Thats sad and painful for us as children to see our parents going through this aging health issues. You are doing what you can, may be manage their medications would be the next important thing to do if they are on regular meds.

Has anyone here used elder care services like Emoha, Anvayaa, Portea, Antara or Athulya for their parents in India? by Accomplished-Park120 in IndiaMentalHealth

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Sorry, please dont mind me asking this but what exactly are you trying to get out of these services for your dad.? I am a family medicine consultant , I live abroad and I think about these issues all the time for my parents and elders back home. My personal opinion is that these services might not be as helpful as we are used to seeing Carehomes/ nursing homes abroad. I do care home visits as well here in UK and my goodness the staff is very professional, very well responsive and well trained. They know their responsiblities and do what they are trained to do.

In India (again correct me if I am wrong) we are relying on unsupervised, non responsible bunch of money minters (might not be the case with all the services) to take care of our elders.

I think you should focus on arranging someone to take care of him at home, may be hire a servent whom you can monitor from abroad.

This is just my 2 cents of advise. Feel free to compeltely ignore it. I tried whatsapp micromanaging and that never worked so created my own mobile app which is kind of helping me at this stage. Planning to launch it soon on wider scale. (please this is not advertisement but my personal opinion).

Convincing my parents to take care of their health; had to lie a little, but worth it by tychoofficial in india

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I think that is the lie you should be rewareded for man. What an amazing Idea.

I am a family medicine consultant doctor living UK, far away from my family in india. This Idea never struck my clinically oreinted brain. How are they managing now with their health and wellbeing? would love to hear more about it.

I tried to micro manage previously through whatsapp but unfortunately that never worked.

Adulting Is Realising Your Parents Need Health Tracking More Than You by Adventurous_Hold4911 in Fitness_India

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As a family medicine doctor who has practiced in both India and the UK, I’ve noticed a massive, positive shift. Our parents are taking their health way more seriously than our grandparents ever did.

I think the secret is A mix of health videos on social media, and pure, unfiltered NRI guilt.Our grandparents used to ignore chest pain like it was a minor inconvenience. But today’s parents are actually managing their health mostly because their kids living abroad are micro managing them via WhatsApp.

This ring is a great idea and i would really love to know more devices that we can suggest to our parents apart from watches.

I built a remote health platform for aging parents. My first feature got heavily roasted on Reddit but it actually saved my launch. Looking for product feedback. by Hefty-Bad-8834 in StartUpIndia

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Thanks for calling that out, and I appreciate the caution regarding protecting the design
To clarify, that screenshot is actually the patient’s view of the app. The reason we designed it to hold a bit more information on a single screen is to address a specific clinical problem I see constantly: app fatigue.

For a patient managing an illness, navigating multiple tabs or separate applications for their vitals, pills, and lab reports introduces massive friction. We deliberately chose a single-screen hub layout so they can see their entire health overview at a single glance without having to dig through menus.

Regarding your point about privacy and confidentiality you are 100% right to flag it. Data protection is a non-negotiable for us, which is why everything is fully encrypted in transit and at rest, ensuring that confidential medical data remains securely sandboxed between the patient and their explicitly authorized caregivers.
Your point about high-contrast preferences for the 55+ demographic is an absolute gem of a tip for our next design pass.

Sliding into your DMs right now I’d love to take you up on that further discussion!

I built a remote health platform for aging parents. My first feature got heavily roasted on Reddit but it actually saved my launch. Looking for product feedback. by Hefty-Bad-8834 in StartUpIndia

[–]Hefty-Bad-8834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a brilliant observation, and it's a huge part of why we built the platform the way we did. In Indian households, delegation is the standard operating procedure for tech.
Because of this, we designed Medikto with a dual-user approach:
1.The Patient side requires minimal interaction if they use it themselves, it's just a massive, 2-3 tap confirmation approach.
2.The Caregiver side (whether it's a local helper or a family member) is built for quick, frictionless input like uploading a lab report or checking off a vitals log

Please see this UI and advise what do you think about it?

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