YouMatter — Gamified Wellness & Insurance

The problem

Wellness apps have a retention problem: people download them, use them for a week, and quit. The StarHack brief (with insurer SUD Life) was to make wellness sticky — and to connect it to something with real-world value: insurance.

What we built

YouMatter — a cross-platform React Native (Expo) app that wraps healthy behavior in a game loop and ties it to insurance incentives:

• Gamification engine: coins (10–200 per activity), level progression every 200 coins, streaks with multipliers, and a badge system across health, insurance, and social categories.
• AR Yoga studio: guided pose sessions with real-time feedback.
• Context-aware AI coach: a Gemini-backed chat that gives personalized wellness, meditation, and insurance guidance.
• Insurance integration: premium-reduction challenges and financial-literacy quizzes that connect activity to actual policy value.
• Feel: React Native Reanimated 3 for 60fps motion, Expo Haptics for tactile feedback, and a Supabase backend, with a companion analytics dashboard for KPIs.

Result

2nd place at StarHack. The judges responded to the core idea — healthy activity as premium value — backed by a build that actually felt polished, not a prototype.

What I learned

• Animation is product, not decoration. The 60fps Reanimated work was a big part of why the demo felt real.
• Tie the game loop to something that matters. Coins are fun; coins that lower an insurance premium are a reason to come back.