For the past few weeks in 2025, I’ve been writing about Wayfeel, the app that I quit my job for.
However, I only realized now that I haven’t written a post that describes exactly what Wayfeel is! My blog, A Space to Cry, has always been about mental health, why it’s okay to cry, and why we need to let our emotions out. But recently, I’ve pivoted to writing about my journey of creating this app. It’s not because I don’t care about mental health anymore—I still really do—but because I’ve been pouring my heart into something that will help you all along that journey. It feels like this is the next step in my progress toward creating content for emotional awareness.
That is what Wayfeel is.
Wayfeel isn’t just an app. It’s a dream, a community, and my way of helping people understand their emotions in a way that feels real, tangible, and safe. Today, I want to share what Wayfeel is, why it matters, and how it’s changing my life—and hopefully, yours too.
What is Wayfeel?
Wayfeel is an emotional diary journal app with a twist: it’s built around a map.
Here’s how it works:
- You open the app whenever you feel something—joy, sadness, anger, or even just a weird, unexplainable emotion.
- You drop a pin on the map, tag it with an emoji, and write a little note about how you’re feeling.
- Over time, you build a visual diary of your emotions, tied to the places where you felt them.
Doesn’t that sound amazing?
The beauty of Wayfeel is that it helps you create awareness. I find that we often deal with our emotions by ignoring them and letting them fester inside, but that keeps all the negative energy inside us. Instead of doing that, you can physically eject them into the world. When you look back— might be a week, a month, or a year later—you can see those emotions that you felt and track them accurately. You can see the patterns in what 2024 was like and where exactly you felt a certain way in 2023. You’ve grown, you see what used to trigger you back then, and where you’ve found joy.
But Wayfeel isn’t just about logging emotions. It’s about sharing them.
The Community Behind Wayfeel
One of the biggest challenges with emotions is that we’re scared to talk about them. You might not even have that friend group that supports you through navigating your emotions. What if you could use Wayfeel for that?
Here’s how it works:
You can share your pins and notes anonymously.
Others in the community can react, comment, and offer support—also anonymously.
That’s the gap that we wanted to fill, by creating a community where you can anonymously share those emotions. You can have a stranger reply to the emotion that you logged today and feel like you’re seen, that someone knows that you’re feeling pain and sadness and that you’re not completely alone in the world.
On the other hand, maybe you do have those friends that you want to reach out to! However, they’re not always going to be available. They might be at work, with their partners, busy traveling, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t care about you anymore! We don’t want to burden our friends with all the emotional baggage.
What if they could respond to you a little later, on their own accord?
Within Wayfeel, we’re also exploring the idea of creating friend circles, similar to how Life360 has a feature for selecting specific people who you want to share your location with. With a similar feature in Wayfeel, you can share your emotional maps with your friends and they might see how you felt after they got off from work, and reply to that as soon as they see it!
We want to create a safe space where people can express themselves without fear. It’s like having a virtual shoulder to cry on, or a cheerleader when you’re feeling on top of the world.
Why I Created Wayfeel
I’ve talked a lot about how Wayfeel works, but never about where this idea initially came from. Just like how this blog started, I’ve always wanted to make the world a little warmer and a nicer place to exist.
Wayfeel started as my architectural thesis project.
I wanted to create a space where people could cry—where they could let out their emotions without shame. But as I worked on it, I realized that crying is just one part of emotional expression.
What we really need is awareness. We need to understand why we feel the way we do, and we need to know that our feelings are valid.
That’s what Wayfeel is all about.
The Challenges of Building Wayfeel
Building Wayfeel hasn’t been easy.
1. Finding the Right Team
I’m not a coder. I’m an architect who’s passionate about mental health and most importantly, contributing positively to the world. When I came upon the idea of making Wayfeel, my biggest challenge was figuring out how to code, but I soon realized that it wasn’t what I wanted to be doing. I tried coding a few times but the rate of which I was learning was much slower than the passion and ambition I have for it. Right now, I’m lucky to have a friend who works in computer science helping me out, but it’s slow going.
2. Time and Money
I recently quit my corporate job to focus on Wayfeel full-time. It was a scary decision, but it felt necessary. Still, the financial pressure is real. Hosting fees, hiring animators or marketers, even trademarking the app—it all adds up. I’ve been thinking about starting a Kickstarter to help cover some of these costs.
3. Balancing Passion and Practicality
Wayfeel is all I think about. It’s the first thing on my mind when I wake up and the last thing before I go to bed. But balancing that passion with the practicalities of running a business—like filing quarterly taxes—has been a steep learning curve.
My Vision for Wayfeel
When I imagine Wayfeel, I not only see a map covered in emojis, but a happier world. I see people in the same neighborhood realizing they’re not alone in how they feel. I see strangers supporting each other, validating each other’s emotions, and creating a sense of community.
Narrowing down a specific target audience was hard, but I soon realized that it’s an app for everyone who wants to use it. My biggest audience will probably be those around my age in their 20s and 30s, who have started thinking about therapy and mental health, but everyone’s free to use it!
I would love for Wayfeel to become a part of people’s daily lives. Maybe it’s a quick check-in during your morning commute, or a deep dive into your emotions after a tough day. However people use it, I want it to make a difference. In the end, as long as I’ve helped a single person become aware of their emotions and hopefully feel better from the community that it fosters, I’ll have succeeded in my goal.
Why Emotional Awareness Matters
There’s a quote I love: “In order to fix your problems, you have to first realize that you have a problem.”
Emotional awareness is the first step. Without it, we’re just reacting to life instead of understanding it. Wayfeel helps you break down your emotions—where you felt them, why you felt them, and what they mean.
It’s like having an emotional bathroom. Just like you need to physically empty your body of impurities, you need to emotionally empty yourself too. Crying is one way to do that. Talking about your feelings is another. Wayfeel is both.
A Personal Story: Why I Believe in Wayfeel
Wayfeel was born out of my own struggles with emotional expression.
A few years ago, I went through a tough breakup. I had a few friends to talk to, but I often found myself wanting a stranger’s perspective—someone who wasn’t biased, who could just tell me the truth.
That’s what I want Wayfeel to be: a place where people can share their stories and get honest, supportive feedback. A place where no one feels alone.
How You Can Help
If Wayfeel resonates with you, here’s how you can help:
- Spread the Word: Share this blog post with anyone who might be interested.
- Give Feedback: What would make you feel safe using Wayfeel? What features would you want to see?
- Support the Journey: If you’re able, consider supporting Wayfeel through crowdfunding or just by cheering us on.
- Send me ideas: I'm always open to chat about what you're passionate about and what you think about Wayfeel! Feel free to send me an email at hello.wayfeel@gmail.com.
Final Thoughts
Wayfeel is more than an app. It’s a dream, a community, and a way to make the world a little kinder, one emotion at a time.
It’s also my way of saying: It’s okay to feel. It’s okay to cry. And it’s okay to share.
Thank you for being part of this journey.