Salight Prayer

People already share prayer topics within small groups, but sharing the experience around those topics can feel forced. Some requests are vulnerable enough that people want support from trusted community members without opening every detail to an entire group.

Salight was intended as a platform for Christians to share prayer topics with the people they are comfortable with, let others respond through prayer, and make support visible without requiring someone to say it explicitly every time.

The product centered on privacy settings, user-created groups, simple ways to let someone know they have been prayed for, and updates that show how the original prayer topic is progressing. Because this is a social application, the hard part was encouraging network participation without making prayer feel performative or pressured.

The biggest learning was that sensitive community products need restraint. The product has to reduce ambiguity, make boundaries easy to understand, and create participation paths that feel sincere rather than optimized for visible engagement.

Privacy design became the foundation of the experience. Group creation, visibility controls, and owner-only prayer details were not secondary settings; they shaped whether people would feel comfortable sharing vulnerable topics at all.

I also learned that AI-assisted exploration can be useful for moving quickly through tone, interaction patterns, and privacy language, but the final product direction still has to be grounded in human judgment, care, and the emotional context of the community.