Mima
A project by Stephen McBride
Mima
a space to come home to yourself
Mima is a guided meditation app built around Internal Family Systems — a compassionate, evidence-based approach to understanding your inner world. Rather than trying to silence or fix what you feel, IFS invites you to meet the different parts of yourself with curiosity and kindness.
The meditations are designed to slow you down, turn your attention inward, and begin building a relationship with the parts of yourself that shape how you think, feel, and act.
A note on how this was built
Mima is also an experiment. I built it using a workflow that is being called ‘Vibe coding’ – essentially describing what I want in plain English, and using AI tools to write the implementation.
The entire app the animated interface, the audio engine, the cloud infrastructure was built in a series of focused sprints using the following stack:
This is what I write and consult about technology as a lever for independent builders, not just large organisations. Mima is me practising what I preach.
The name
The Mima was an AI aboard the Aniara — a ship carrying refugees from a dying Earth toward Mars. She absorbed the memories and anxieties of the passengers, soothing them, until the weight of human suffering became too great and she fell silent.
From Aniara, the epic poem by Harry Martinson (1956) — translated into English by Hugh MacDiarmid
This app borrows her name, and her purpose — without, we hope, her ending.
Enter Mima
Inspired by Aniara, the epic poem by Harry Martinson · Dedicated to the idea that technology can soothe as well as accelerate.