You instrument everything else.
Telemetry for the services, dashboards for the deploys, nothing for the person shipping them. Therma is a 60-second daily check-in that connects how you feel to your sleep, your interruptions, and your on-call weeks.
By Omar Rantisi, Founder of Therma2 min read
The problem
Engineering rewards systems thinking, and then hands you a system you cannot inspect: your own state. The 2am page, the sprint that ate the weekend, the meeting-shredded Tuesday. Each one registers somewhere, but there is no dashboard for it, so the low-focus stretch that follows looks like a discipline problem instead of a lagging indicator.
You would never run a service with no observability. Most engineers run themselves exactly that way.
“You would never ship a service without observability. You ship yourself that way every sprint.”
How Therma helps
Therma adds the missing layer. A 60-second check-in captures how the day actually felt, and the weekly reveal correlates it with your sleep and HRV through Apple Health or Oura.
Two weeks in, the graph starts explaining itself: focus follows sleep with a one-day lag, on-call weeks cost more than they bill, and the Thursday dip is not a character flaw. It is a pattern with inputs you can change.
What you get
- 1The 60-second check-in
One adaptive question a day. Less time than a CI run, no blank page, and it works from the couch after standup or the desk before the deploy.
- 2The weekly reveal
Mood correlated with sleep, HRV, and the shape of your week. The reveal surfaces the lagging indicators you would never spot day to day.
- 3Chat
For the days a check-in is not enough: rubber-duck the thing that is actually on your mind. No advice, no fixing, no performance review energy.
Common questions
Does Therma integrate with my wearable?
Yes. The reveal reads sleep and HRV through Apple Health and Oura, then lines them up against your check-ins. If you already wear a ring or a watch, the data layer is basically waiting.
Is this another habit app with streaks and badges?
No badges, no guilt mechanics. There is a streak, but it forgives: miss a day and the practice absorbs it. The point is the pattern, not the scoreboard.
What does the check-in actually ask?
How you feel, in the form of a mood ring and one adaptive question shaped by what you said this week. Sixty seconds, then it gets out of your way.
Omar Rantisi
Founder of Therma. UCLA Math + Sociology. Building tools for the space between silence and therapy. Not a therapist. Just someone who needed this to exist.
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