somia
your spiritual companion
An AI-powered astrology companion app that combines Vedic birth chart analysis, conversational AI, tarot readings, and emotional memory to create a deeply personal spiritual experience for Gen-Z users.
11,700+
Lines of legacy code pruned
78
Custom tarot card artworks
12
Emotional archetypes
0
API keys exposed to client
Somia
your cosmic mirror
powered by AI · 100% private
The Challenge
Astrology apps are content feeds. We built a relationship.
Existing astrology apps treat users as passive consumers: daily horoscopes, generic compatibility scores, and one-size-fits-all forecasts. There's no continuity, no memory, and no reason to come back beyond habit.
The brief was to create something fundamentally different: a conversational AI companion that knows your birth chart, remembers your conversations, tracks your emotional patterns, and grows with you. Think of it as a best friend who understands astrology, tarot, and your personal cosmic cycles, and who texts you first when the stars shift.
The target audience: Gen-Z and young millennials (18-28) in India who already use astrology casually but want something deeper and more personal than Co-Star or The Pattern.
Product Walkthrough
Eight modules. One continuous experience.
Splash
Cinematic hero with ambient video loop
Onboarding
Chat-native conversational flow
Companion Chat
AI companion with inline features
extracting memory
updating transit context...
Live Response
Micro-messages with typing pauses
tap to draw card
Tarot Reading
Inline card pull with custom art
Today's Sky
Personalised daily transit reading
Cosmic Profile
Birth chart + archetype identity
Mirror Loops
Emotional pattern recognition
Core Features
What makes Somia different.
Companion-First Chat
One conversation that IS the product. Tarot, transits, and compatibility checks all surface inline: no menus, no tabs, just talk.
Emotional Memory
Somia remembers your crush, your fears, your goals. This memory shapes every future response across days and weeks.
Vedic Astrology Engine
Real sidereal birth chart calculation with Lahiri ayanamsha, Mahadasha cycle tracking, and daily transit overlays.
Mirror Loops
Identifies repeating emotional patterns from conversations, loops like 'The Fixer' or 'The Overthinker' mapped to chart placements.
78-Card Tarot System
Full Major and Minor Arcana with custom-generated art. Upright and reversed interpretations grounded in your chart.
Crisis Safety Net
Built-in distress detection with localized helplines. Content-free logging: no user text is ever stored in signals.
Under the Hood
Production-grade architecture.
Security-First Design
- • All API keys proxied server-side - never exposed to client
- • Firebase ID tokens verified with RS256 on every API route
- • Firestore rules enforce strict user ownership
- • Crisis detection is content-free - no user text is ever logged
- • WCAG AA contrast compliance across all text
The Outcome
From concept to production. Under 3 weeks.
Somia shipped as a production-grade, security-hardened, AI-native spiritual companion: not a prototype, not an MVP. The companion-first architecture, emotional memory system, and Vedic astrology engine create a product that feels genuinely personal.
The codebase went through a full cleanup pass: 11,700+ lines of legacy code removed, all orphaned routes and components pruned, navigation bugs fixed, and a zero-error production build verified.
696
Line companion page (core product)
10
Active app routes
3
Subscription tiers designed
7
Consumable purchase types
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