Depth
20 levels across 4 increasing difficulty tiers
SaaS
Intuition
A game built to grow trust in your own intuition — one level at a time, across 20 handcrafted levels on a single React Native codebase.
MobileCross-PlatformGamificationReact NativeExpoWellness
Intuition
The Challenge
A wellness app wanted to help people build real trust in their own intuition — not through articles or passive content, but through an actual practice they could return to and visibly get better at over time.
The Solution
A card-based game sits at the core of the app: sense the right card, reveal the answer, see how you did, and go again. It's designed around a simple idea — trust in your own instincts grows through repeated practice, not explanation — so the game gets progressively more demanding across 20 handcrafted levels as that trust builds. Guided meditation and breathing exercises sit alongside it as a smaller, secondary part of the app, with room already built in to expand that side later.
The Engineering
20 distinct levels, each with its own logic module, progress through four difficulty tiers (easy, medium, expert, final) — early levels are a simple two-card pick, later levels group cards by category and vary whether the target should match or differ from a shown set. A shared card/level data model underlies all of them: a cards table (image, name, category) and a levels table (difficulty, ordering, per-level composition) are joined through a relations table, so every level — however different it feels to play — pulls from the same underlying content structure rather than being hardcoded per level. The app is cross-platform from one codebase, built in React Native with Expo, targeting iOS, Android, and web. Meditation and breathwork are intentionally secondary: those tabs are already scaffolded in the app's navigation, ready to be built out as content is developed, without requiring any change to the app's core architecture.
One data model, 20 levels
cards + levels + relations tables
shared content structure
Easy tier
Medium tier
Expert tier
Final tier
Card-sense game loop
Sense the card
→
Reveal the answer
→
See how you did
→
Go again
Built For
App Users
The System
The game is the app. A player opens a level, senses which card is right, reveals the answer, and moves to the next round — simple at first, then noticeably more demanding as they climb through 20 levels. It's built to feel like practice, not content: the more someone plays, the more the game asks of their instincts. Meditation and guided breathing exist as a smaller part of the experience today, positioned to grow once the core game is established.
Level 2 — Color Sense
Level 3 — Category Memory
Level 6 — Spot the Difference
Instant round feedback
Guided breathing practice
Guided audio meditation sessions
The Outcome
The app delivers a genuine trust-building practice, not passive content — 20 levels of real, increasing difficulty, with the game as the app's clear centerpiece. One codebase serves iOS, Android, and web, and the app is already structured to grow its meditation and breathwork features later, without needing a rebuild.
Reach
1 codebase serves iOS, Android, and web
Scalability
Meditation & breathwork ready to expand, no rebuild
Technologies
React NativeExpoPostgreSQL
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