About the Maker
One person. One vision. One product built with care.
"Building tools that feel like talking to a friend."
The Story
After 20 years building enterprise management systems, I noticed a pattern: the most powerful software was often the hardest to use.
Complex workflows, endless forms, complicated menus, and countless settings were designed to manage business processes. They were powerful, but they often created more friction than help.
But for personal life, things are different.
Most people don't need another complicated productivity system. They just need a simple assistant who understands what they want and helps them get things done.
I often found myself wanting to say: "Remind me to pay rent on the 15th."
Or: "Schedule my workout every Wednesday at 7 PM."
Without opening an app, filling out forms, choosing options, and navigating through menus.
That led me to a simple question: What if software could work more like talking to a real personal assistant?
Building Lumi
With the help of AI development tools, I spent 10 weeks building Lumi - an AI reminder assistant designed around natural conversation.
Instead of creating tasks through complicated screens and templates, you simply describe what you need, review the result, and confirm.
Lumi understands your intent, creates the reminder, and helps organize your daily tasks through natural language.
No complicated setup. No unnecessary steps. Just talk, confirm, and get things done.
The Technology
Lumi combines modern AI capabilities with a privacy-first architecture.
AI models help understand user requests and transform natural conversations into structured tasks and reminders.
Your conversations, reminders, and task data are stored locally on your device. Your personal information stays with you, and you can manage, export, or delete your data whenever you want.
The Philosophy
I believe AI applications should follow five principles:
- Focus on the individual - AI should not only help companies and teams. Everyone deserves their own personal assistant.
- Privacy first - your personal data belongs to you. It should stay under your control.
- AI enhances, doesn't replace - AI helps reduce friction and handle complexity, while you remain in control.
- Affordable by design - useful AI tools should be accessible, not limited to expensive subscriptions.
- Manual fallback always - talk or tap. AI should make things easier, not take away your choices.
The Journey
Lumi was built in 10 weeks from the first line of code to closed beta.
It was built with Flutter for cross-platform development, Cloudflare Workers for lightweight backend services, and modern AI technologies to explore a new way of interacting with software.
This is only the beginning.
The future direction of Lumi is not just about reminders. It is about exploring how AI can become a practical personal assistant - one that understands your needs, helps manage your daily life, and eventually connects with other services to complete tasks on your behalf.
Upcoming features include complex irregular task recognition, smart alarm actions, and eventually - automated task execution through an open MCP platform.