Mela · Computational dermatology
A new way to look at your skin.
I read your barrier, your environment, your patterns. Over time, I read you.
Reading · day 22
How I read you
Skin is four layers deep. I read all four.
From a photo and a few signals, I read down through the surface to the systemic — and back up to what it means for you this week.
Select a layer · the reading cycles on its own
The app
One reading a day. One sentence that earns its place.
A photo in the morning light. A tap on how you slept. Mela does the rest — quietly, over weeks — and only speaks when it has something worth saying.
- 01Reads your skin, products, sleep and cycle together.
- 02Tells a serum reaction from a hormonal flare — from timing alone.
- 03Refuses to guess until the data earns a conclusion.
Closer than a mirror.
Kept longer than a memory.
One photo each morning, in the same window light. I hold the thread your eyes can't — and tell you the day something truly changes.
The demonstration · Synthetic data
Watch me tell a serum from a cycle.
Twelve weeks of synthetic skin, one new serum, three flares. Watch how long I refuse to guess — and what finally settles it.
I observe.
I synthesize.
I act.
Over weeks. Over months. Over your whole pattern. I don't diagnose, and I don't prescribe.
Field Notes · Live
The methodology, in print.
Substantive pieces, dated and signed — what the engine does, how it measures itself, and where the limits sit. Published openly, including the unflattering results.
New here? Start with how Mela sorts cause from coincidence, then what skincare gets wrong about measuring your skin.
Read all field notes →Before launch
I'll write you once. I'm writing in public until then.
My iOS beta opens later this year. One email when it does — what's in it, who it's built for, when to expect it. Then nothing until you hear from me again. In the meantime, I publish what I'm building.
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Methodology, in print.
How I sort cause from coincidence. Whether a breakout is your new serum — or your cycle.