thought the hardest part of finding a passion project would be coming up with something meaningful.
It wasn’t.
The hardest part has been finding ways to change PatternMD to find where it can have the most real effect.
At first, it was supposed to help doctors diagnose faster. That felt like the obvious solution—reduce delay, help patients sooner. But after talking to six doctors, I realized something uncomfortable: a lot of the delay isn’t just about missing pattern, It’s about racism. Sexism. Bias.
And PatternMD wouldn’t fix that.
So I shifted it. I tried making it an assistant tool—something to make doctors’ lives easier, track patient changes over time, make everything more efficient.
It still didn’t feel right.
It felt forced. Like I was trying to make the idea fit somewhere just because I wanted it to.
Now, it’s changed again.
PatternMD is becoming something for clinical researchers. A tool to help sort through massive amounts of data and actually see patterns faster. Save time. Reduce overwhelm. Do something real, even if it’s quieter.
And I think that’s the lesson.
You can’t be rigid with ideas like this.
The goal isn’t to prove your first version was brilliant. The goal is to build something that actually works—even if it looks nothing like what you started with.
I’m still figuring PatternMD out.
But at least now, it’s starting to take form into something real.
Best of luck,
Edidiong
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