I cut streaks from a fitness app. My users are my grandparents.

I've been building a wellness app for my own family, and most of the work has been removing things.

Every app I tried to get my parents onto assumes you already exercise. My grandfather is not going to open that. So a lot of decisions went the other way from the obvious:

No streaks. A broken streak makes people quit — and the person I'm building for will break it in week two, then never come back.

No leaderboards. The moment my mother sees she's behind her son, she stops. Comparison motivates the people who were already fine.

No estimated numbers. Nothing on any screen unless somebody entered it. There's no step count, because no browser can count steps in the background, and a tile showing a dash would be more honest than one showing a guess. The moment an app shows you a figure you didn't enter, you quietly stop trusting the ones you did.

48px minimum touch targets, because the users are over sixty and a 32px button is a miss for a lot of people.

And the plan tells you what it left out. Say you've got arthritis and a bad knee, and it says so in the plan: "we left out anything that isn't right for what you told us — arthritis, a gentler low-impact routine, your knee." That took longer to build than just generating a plan, and it's the only part my family commented on unprompted.

The thing I keep running into is that most of these felt like removing value while I was doing them. Empty screens look unfinished. A dash looks like a bug.

So: what have you deliberately left out, and did you have to talk yourself into it?

And if anyone's actually got a parent or grandparent to stick with a health app — I'd genuinely like to know what did it.