The problem
Cura started as an idea for Côte d’Ivoire, where I was born. Booking a doctor there still means calling the practice or going back and forth on WhatsApp — and so does moving an appointment, or cancelling one.
It is painful on both sides. Patients call during office hours, hope someone picks up, and take whatever slot is left. Practitioners spend their day answering the phone, rewriting a paper agenda and chasing confirmations, then absorbing the no-shows nobody warned them about — with patient history scattered across folders.
The software that fixes this properly exists in a handful of countries. Côte d’Ivoire is not one of them. Cura is built for the places that got skipped.
What I built
For patients
- •Search practitioners by specialty, location and real availability
- •Book, reschedule and cancel 24/7 without a phone call
- •Appointment history and documents in one place
For practitioners
- •Calendar with availability rules, synced in real time with what patients can book
- •Automated SMS and email reminders to cut no-shows
- •Digitised patient records: history, prescriptions and documents
- •Public profile with verified patient reviews
- •Dashboard for consultations, new patients, absenteeism and revenue
Across the product
- •French, English and Portuguese from day one
- •GDPR-conscious data model — health data is not something you retrofit
- •Runs in a browser, no install or special hardware for a practice to get started
Stack
Frontend
- Next.js (App Router)
- React Native / Expo
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Backend & data
- Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Row Level Security)
- Scheduled jobs for reminders
Infrastructure
- Vercel
- Transactional email & SMS providers
Where it stands
Cura is live with its first practitioner: a physiotherapist in Lisbon running their appointments on it day to day. That is the point where a product stops being a demo and becomes part of someone’s working day.
Onboarding is what I iterate on hardest. Moving a practice off whatever it uses today without losing a single appointment is the whole battle — everything else is downstream of getting that right.
Growth is the current focus. I am bringing on practitioners here in Lisbon, and a salesperson starts in Côte d’Ivoire in September to open the market Cura was designed for in the first place.