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The mylune Journal

Thoughts on privacy, women's health, and building something worth trusting.

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Privacy6 min read

Why your period data is more sensitive than your banking data

Financial fraud can be reversed. Health data exposure cannot. A look at why cycle data carries a unique and permanent risk profile, and what it means for the apps that collect it.

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Engineering9 min read

Building a period app without a server: how we did it

On-device architecture is simple to describe and hard to build well. This is the story of the technical choices we made to ensure that health data never leaves the phone, even by accident.

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Product8 min read

mylune in 18 languages: what real localisation actually means

Dropping a JSON file into a translation tool is not localisation. We spent months on Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, and Marathi to understand what culturally accurate women's health language actually sounds like.

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Business5 min read

Why mylune has no ads, and never will

Ad supported health apps are not a business model with privacy attached. They are a business model that requires privacy to be absent. Here is what we built instead.

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Safety5 min read

Stealth Mode: when your health app needs to be invisible

For many women, the question is not how good the cycle tracker is. It is whether anyone else can see that the cycle tracker is on her phone. Stealth Mode is for that.

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