Overview
- Ali Mustufa, a senior developer from Mumbai, created an app called Mirror after Bell’s palsy left the right side of his face temporarily paralyzed.
- The mobile-first tool measures facial symmetry in real time by comparing left and right movements across more than 400 tracked points.
- Users can log daily exercises, see timelapse videos of their progress, and share clear reports that physiotherapists can review.
- Mustufa said he built the app with AI coding agents such as OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude and he plans a public release with a possible GitHub code drop.
- He is testing the approach with his physiotherapist and the project has drawn support on X, including an offer of a ChatGPT subscription from OpenAI executive Vaibhav Srivastav.