One person, building the app he needed.

Why Rewire exists

It started as a personal problem.

Monish noticed that the same instant-gratification loops he kept designing as a product engineer were the ones eating his own life: phone scrolling, late nights, restrict-binge eating cycles, the small daily compromises that quietly compound.

The mainstream “habit tracker” category did almost nothing to help. Checking a box once a day is not how the brain actually rewires. So he started reading the underlying research, and the more he read, the clearer it became that the gap was not knowledge. The gap was translation. The science was sitting in academic journals while people downloaded apps that gamified streaks without touching the neurochemistry underneath.

Build software that works with human neurochemistry instead of against it.

Rewire is the bridge. Every feature is built from a paper or a clinical protocol, not a designer’s intuition about what looks fun.

The research underneath

What it is built on

• The Molecule of More

  Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

  On dopamine and the pull of what comes next

• The Power of Habit

  Charles Duhigg, 2012

  The cue, routine and reward loop

• Relapse Prevention

  G. Alan Marlatt and Dennis M. Donovan, 2005

  Maintenance strategies for addictive behaviors

• Addiction: beyond dopamine reward circuitry

  Nora Volkow et al., PNAS, 2011

  Dopamine and addiction

• Psychology of Habit

  Wendy Wood and Dennis Rünger, Annual Review of Psychology, 2016

  How habits form, and why they outlast intentions

• Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm

  Verbruggen and Logan, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2008

  Inhibitory control

For the full research lineage behind each system, and where the evidence is thinner than the hype, read the methodology.

How it shows up in the app

Science you can see on the screen

• 01

  A Dopamine Score, not a vanity number

  A quantified daily measure built from the habits and urges you log, so progress is something you can see and test.

• 02

  Interventions that show their sources

  Each micro-intervention is interactive and timed, and ships with a “What’s the Science?” panel naming the technique and the research behind it.

• 03

  Built for the long middle

  Detox Challenges survive a slip and the daily streak counts showing up, because the hard part of habit change is the weeks after the novelty fades.

The person behind Rewire

Monish Meher

Monish is a solo founder and behavioral product engineer based in Nuremberg, Germany. He operates under his sole proprietorship, Meher Technologies, and describes his work as being a Behavioral Architect: someone who turns behavioral science into software.

He is the sole designer, engineer, researcher and writer behind every part of Rewire, from the SwiftUI codebase to the Dopamine Score algorithm to the cited research behind each micro-intervention.

He also builds Redirect, a Chrome extension that sends distracting websites to your goals and makes every break cost a little effort. It is Rewire’s desktop sibling: the same idea of working with your habits instead of fighting them, applied to the browser.

Background

Shipping software since nineteen

Mostly as the first engineer on new products, and almost entirely outside the conventional path.

1. AiVANTA, Founding Engineer, AI Systems

   Navi Mumbai, India

   Built the first prototype of the AI video generation platform that helped AiVANTA reach $500k+ ARR, with the OpenAI API, LangChain, ElevenLabs and HeyGen powering multimodal AI avatar pipelines.

2. runITsimple, AI Systems Architect and Product Engineer

   Baden-Württemberg, Germany

   Architected and deployed RAI, an enterprise AI core that attaches to a company’s data, mediates between customers and employees, and runs automations on a self-designed no-code workflow system, across AWS EC2 and Lambda.

3. Gradworx, Founding Engineer

   London, United Kingdom

   Built the Gradworx.io graduate hiring platform from scratch, including its AI Resume Review on Gemini Flash.

4. Source Catalyst (SourceVerse LLP), Co-founder and CTO

   India

   Built the mobile platform and automated systems that helped over 10,000 Indian students learn real-world coding, get mentored and find placements.

Before any of that, he studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology in Mumbai, then moved to Germany for an MSc in Autonomy Technologies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. He left the program to build full time once the work outside school was moving faster than the work inside it.