Building HealOgut – India’s First Clinically Validated Gut Health App

Introduction

WeframTech is proud to be the technology partner behind healOgut, India’s first clinically validated gut health app. This innovative digital therapeutics (DTx) platform bridges modern healthcare with digital convenience to deliver a truly personalized gut health journey.

In this case study, we’ll explore the product’s functionality, the tech stack we used—including Flutter, Firebase, Directus CMS, and DigitalOcean—and how our architectural decisions, especially the integration of Directus as a headless CMS, accelerated development and saved significant resources.

Product Overview: HealOgut

healOgut is a gut health management app that empowers users to manage gastrointestinal symptoms through a combination of expert-guided care, behavioral tracking, personalized content, and clinical consultations.

Key Features Include:

• Personalized onboarding: Users answer 11 clinically crafted questions to tailor their care journey.

• Daily tasks: Includes psychoeducation, nutritional content, activity tracking, and expert sessions.

• In-depth reports & recommendations: Delivered by professionals based on symptoms and behavior analysis.

• Tools for tracking & self-assessment: Monitor food, digestion, sleep, stress, hydration, and flare-ups.

• DTx: Hybrid care through digital tracking and partner clinic visits.

• Medicine reminders: Users can set reminders and upload their own reports.

This comprehensive digital experience is complemented by a backend dashboard for care teams—MicroHeal—to manage patients, appointments, nutrition plans, reports, and chat communication efficiently.

Watch the product demo:

• healOgut App Demo

• MicroHeal Dashboard Demo

Tech Stack Overview

• Frontend: Flutter (for cross-platform mobile development)

• Authentication & Notifications: Firebase

• Backend & CMS: Directus (Headless CMS)

• Reporting & Admin Dashboard: Raxport (embedded reporting layer)

• Hosting & Deployment: DigitalOcean (Droplets, Managed Databases, Object Storage)

How Directus Saved 60% of Backend Development Time?

One of the most impactful decisions in the development of healOgut was to build the backend on Directus, a powerful open-source headless CMS.

Why We Chose Directus:

1. Rapid API Generation: Directus automatically generated REST and GraphQL APIs from our data models.

2. Prebuilt Auth & Permissions: Saved weeks of work by providing role-based access control (RBAC) and secure authentication out-of-the-box.

3. Admin Panel: A full-featured admin dashboard made it easy for non-tech users (e.g., doctors and care teams) to manage content, users, and patient data without custom interfaces.

4. Custom Flows & Extensibility: Easily integrated custom hooks and logic where needed without overcomplicating the architecture.

5. Time Saved: By avoiding custom backend development, we saved roughly 60% of the backend development time. This allowed us to focus more on UI/UX, data visualization, and integration with clinical workflows.

Architecture Highlights

• Microservices Architecture: Each major module (auth, CMS, reports, chat, tracking) is modular and loosely coupled.

• Cloud-First Deployment: Deployed across DigitalOcean, leveraging droplets for backend services and object storage for media/files.

• Secure & Scalable: Leveraged Firebase for authentication and notification pipelines to handle real-time updates and reminders.

MicroHeal Dashboard: Powering the Expert Side

The MicroHeal dashboard is the internal engine behind the patient care workflow. It includes:

• Slot and Appointment Management

• Patient Grouping and Coordination

• Detailed Patient Profiles

• Customizable Diet & Recipe Planner

• Chat and Communication Tools

• Report Review and Flare-up Logging

This dashboard is tightly integrated with the app, ensuring real-time coordination between care providers and patients.

Live Link

Microheal.in

Conclusion

By combining modern tech with clinical rigor, healOgut is changing how gut health is managed in India. The smart use of Directus CMS as a backend not only accelerated time to market but also provided scalable flexibility for future iterations.

At Weframe Tech, we continue to push boundaries in health tech—delivering high-impact digital products like healOgut that are robust, patient-centric, and future-ready.

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