Friday, 9:47 PM
I'm at a wedding. Open bar, dinner's not till nine, and I'm already way over for the day.
You're not fixing today, so stop trying.
Eat something before you go so you're not starving at nine. Vodka soda instead of beer — a hundred a drink instead of two-fifty. Tomorrow's lighter, Sunday you're back to normal.
This costs you nothing if you don't turn one night into a whole weekend.
Staven, to a member who had logged 214 days.
What Staven is
A wellness coach that lives on your phone and remembers everything you've told it.
Most apps hand you a number at the end of the day. Staven is built for the moment before — when you're deciding, not reporting. It knows what you ate last Tuesday, how you slept this week, which meals you actually repeat, and what you said you were struggling with a month ago.
The hard part of staying consistent has never been the information. It's that nobody is there at nine o'clock on a Friday.
- It remembers
- Your history compounds. Month six knows things month one couldn't.
- It plans with you
- Targets are set from a real conversation about your life, and they change when your life does.
- It stays
- A bad day is where most people quit. That's the day Staven is most useful.
Who's building it
Staven is built by Josh Ogiba, a business student and founder in Illinois, alongside his girlfriend Marissa. It started as something we made for ourselves — two people trying to get healthier, priced out of the kind of coaching that actually works.
We've used it every day for months. Everything in the product exists because one of us needed it on a specific bad day.
Coming to iPhone
Staven is in development for iOS, with a limited group of first members joining before public release.
To hear when it opens, email josh@staven.app.