Mikoyi started with a problem I lived for fifteen years.
I spent my career in finance and healthcare technology — good work, real responsibility, the kind of job that doesn't switch off at six. I'd leave the office and the office wouldn't leave me. I'd be at dinner still replaying a meeting. Lying awake rereading a message. Dreading a conversation before it happened. The standard advice — set boundaries, don't check email after six, leave it at work — never held, because the problem was never about rules. My brain didn't take orders. It just kept running.
I know now that a lot of this is how my brain is wired — I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, after struggling with it quietly my whole life. The racing thoughts, the mind that won't go quiet at night, the loop I couldn't talk my way out of. Putting it on a page helped a little. But what helped more was something that could look at what I'd written and see the thing underneath — the pattern I couldn't see from inside it.
I looked for an app that did that, and never found it. The journaling apps were general — built for moods, gratitude, life. None of them were built for the specific thing I carried home: work, and the head that wouldn't put it down. The meeting, the message, the person I couldn't stop thinking about. So I built the thing I'd needed all along.
What Mikoyi is
Mikoyi is a five-minute end-of-day ritual for the work stress that follows you home. You say what stood out. It reflects your day back — honestly, without advice or toxic positivity. It remembers the people and patterns in your work life, so you stop carrying all of it in your head. And it helps you set the day down — or, for the things that won't go down until they're worked through, talk them out or rehearse them first.
It is built on a few things I believe, and won't compromise on. It will never tell you to just quit, or to suck it up, or that you're imagining it. It will never pretend to be your therapist, and it will never claim to fix your job. It doesn't manufacture cheerfulness. And it is private by design — yours, not your company's. Nothing in it ever touches HR.
Who it's for
Mikoyi is for the people who care about their work too much to leave it at the door — and are tired of carrying it home. The ones who can't just stop caring, won't pretend none of it matters, and never found a ritual that actually works.
It started with work, because that's what I lived. But the thing underneath — a day that won't end once it's over, a mind that keeps running after the room's gone quiet — turned out to be bigger than any one job. So it's also for the student carrying the seminar, the shift, and the advisor home at 1am. It's for the busy mind — the one that races the second the lights go off, replays a conversation forty times, or can't stop overthinking a thing that's already over. If your head doesn't switch off when the day does, this was built for you too.
A note, said plainly: Mikoyi helps you get what's in your head out of it, so it stops running. It is not therapy, and it does not diagnose or treat anything — if something's affecting your life, a professional is who can actually help. What Mikoyi does is give you five quiet minutes to set the day down.
If that's you, this was built for you.
— Sunil, founder