Rilda
Rilda is a wellness and performance app built exclusively for female athletes. It combines menstrual cycle tracking, daily wellness check-ins, training load monitoring, and personalized insights into a single, fast, intuitive experience. Not another data dump, a tool that actually tells you what to do with your data.
Year
2026
Scope
Sports Tech
Client
Startup
Rilda was born from a real incident. I passed out during a match (period Day 2, overloaded training sessions, insufficient fueling) all hitting at once. No app was tracking all three simultaneously. No alert was triggered. So I decided to build one.
The Problem
Female athletes at the semi-pro and pro level train at elite intensity without access to the sports science staff that top-tier clubs provide. Most are already wearing wearables - Garmin, Whoop, Oura -collecting real-time data on HRV, sleep, training load, and recovery. But the apps that come with those wearables are static. They show you numbers. They don't tell you what those numbers mean for you, today, as a female athlete.
The biggest frustration isn't lack of data. It's lack of interpretation. Athletes are walking around with more data than ever and still don't know what to do with it.
Solution
An iOS app that connects the dots between cycle phase, sleep, training load, nutrition, and mental health and delivers one specific, actionable recommendation per day based on your own patterns. Not generic advice. Not a dashboard of numbers. Your data, interpreted in real time through a female physiology lens.
The core product loop takes under 2 minutes per day. The insight it delivers is the kind of feedback that used to require a full sports science staff.
Why me
I'm the target user. A decade of professional volleyball across Turkey, the US, Croatia. A Computer Science master's with a 4.0. I've worn the wearables, stared at the numbers, and had no idea what to do with them. I've lived the problem in every country I've competed in and I have the technical skills to build the solution.
Status: Currently in development. Beta launching to a closed network of professional athletes. If you're a female athlete, a league, or work in sports tech. I'd love to connect.
