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Some people collect stamps. I've always collected loose ends.
I grew up in India as the kid who couldn't let a question go. Why does Grandma know it's going to rain before the sky does? If I know what you ate and how you slept, can I guess what kind of day you'll have? Why do we write everything down, and then do nothing with it? Most of them didn't have neat answers — so I just kept asking, long after everyone else had moved on, turning things over until the dots connected and something clicked.
I never really stopped. The questions just grew up with me. I chased them across data science, analytics, product and the business side of things — building recommendation systems that learned what people wanted before they said it out loud, then turning intimidating numbers in fintech into decisions people could stand behind. Different rooms, same question underneath: what is this data actually trying to tell us — and what should we do about it?
But it always nagged at me that all that cleverness pointed outward — at what you'd watch, what you'd buy. Meanwhile the most personal data any of us will ever have, the data about our own bodies, just piled up: measured to death, and acted on almost never.
So I started building the opposite. Not another dashboard — an answer. And I built the first version for the people I could never fool: my family, my closest friends. I put it in their hands, watched, pulled it apart, and built it again. I've lost count of how many times. I still rebuild it every week. Only once it had earned their trust did I let it reach anyone else.
Humotron is what it looks like to finally close the loop — the grown-up answer to the question I've been asking since I was a kid: now what do I do?
— Chinmay Bhatt, Founder, Humotron