36K Reddit views, near-zero paying users: traffic isn't the problem
TextMyPill is a solo-built WhatsApp service for medicine reminders, aimed at chronically ill patients and their caregivers — often adult children managing an elderly parent's meds from another city or country. Users photograph a prescription, even a handwritten one, and AI reads it and converts it into a dosage schedule; reminders then arrive directly on WhatsApp with no app to install. A multi-patient dashboard lets one account manage several people's medications at once.
If a dose is missed, a follow-up message goes out 30 minutes later and the caregiver gets alerted. It runs on the Meta , for prescription OCR, Supabase, and Cloudflare. Pricing is deliberately low because it targets the Indian market, where willingness to pay for a reminder tool (as opposed to actual treatment) is limited: ₹59/month (about $1) for one person, ₹99 (about $2) for two, and ₹199 (about $4) for up to five.
The founder posted the origin story on Reddit twice; one post reached 36,000 views with a peak of 866 concurrent readers. Both posts drove a big spike in signups, but almost none of those visitors went on to actually set up a reminder or return after trying it. In the end, the service has 20 registered users and roughly $3 in .
Key points
- WhatsApp-based medicine reminder service; AI reads a photographed prescription and auto-builds a dosage schedule
- No app install needed, reminders arrive via WhatsApp, and one account can manage multiple patients
- Priced very low for the Indian market, around $1–4 per month depending on group size
- Two viral Reddit posts (36K views, 866 concurrent readers) drove a big signup spike
- Despite the spike, only 20 registered users and about $3 MRR resulted — activation, not traffic, is the real bottleneck