Case study · Product · 2026

Peri Tracker.

A perimenopause symptom tracker sold on Etsy as part of the Daily Habit Kit. Installable PWA + printable companion + a 30-day post-launch SEO plan.

Peri Tracker — Digital Wellness Tracker. Finally understand what your body is telling you. Etsy listing cover.Product · PWA + Etsy
Year
2026
Stack
PWA · single HTML · offline-first
Format
Installable web app + printable PDF
Listed
May 10, 2026
Price
$14.99 · one-time

The problem

Most period apps weren't built for this stage of life.

Perimenopause is messy — hot flashes, sleep that comes and goes, brain fog, mood swings, irregular cycles. The mainstream period-tracking apps were built for fertility and contraception, not for a body that's winding down instead of cycling predictably.

And most wellness-tracking products live behind monthly subscriptions, push notifications, and ad-funded data harvesting. None of that fits the user. The audience wanted something private, one-time, and built around the symptoms they actually experience.

Last problem: the audience reads printables and journals. A pure app misses them. A pure printable doesn't aggregate symptoms. The product had to be both.

The approach

One product. Two formats. No subscription.

Peri Tracker ships as a single-file installable PWA alongside a printable companion PDF, packaged as one Etsy listing. The PWA works offline, installs to the home screen on iOS and Android, and stores everything locally — no account, no server, no data leaves the phone.

The printable runs in parallel for users who think on paper: weekly logs, a symptom legend, and a doctor-prep page that summarizes the last 90 days. Same product, two surfaces, one purchase.

If you're going to sell wellness software to a stranger on Etsy, it has to feel finished, private, and one-time. No 'create an account.' No 'we'll text you.' Just open it and go.
David Wilson · Brand Forge

The pre-launch pack covered four things most one-person products skip:

01

Etsy SEO before code

A 120/140-char title built for menopause-tracker search, 13 fully-used tags, and a tightened description targeting buyer intent — not a clever brand line. Listing was optimized for discoverability the day it went live.

02

Single-file PWA, no build step

One .html file with inline CSS + JS + service worker. Buyers download, open, install. No CDN, no hosting cost, no broken-link risk three years from now. The simplest stack that ships.

03

Printable + digital, packaged together

Most Etsy wellness products are one or the other. This bundle is both, with a printable that lives alongside the app — same visual system, same content model. Two formats, one price.

04

30-day post-launch checklist

Brand Forge's listings don't just ship — they get reviewed at day 3, day 7, day 14, and day 30 with concrete things to test (title swaps, tag rotations, cover image A/B).

The outcome

Live on Etsy. Daily Habit Kit shop, May 10.

The listing went live on May 10, 2026 at dailyhabitkit.etsy.com. The full launch pack — listing copy, 13-tag SEO set, 8-image gallery, Pinterest content pack, post-launch optimization plan — all shipped together.

The PWA installs cleanly on iPhone and Android. No account required, no analytics phoning home, no recurring charge. Buy once, use forever.

It's also the proof for a thesis: the same workflow Brand Forge runs for client apps — design system, real PWA build, packaging, launch plan — works for our own consumer products. Peri Tracker is what the apps pillar looks like turned on the studio itself.

What we shipped

Inside the box.

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