# Show HN: TrialPilot – clinical trials from your phone, built by a patient

> Source: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882018>
> Published: 2026-07-12 15:42:58+00:00

I have Long COVID, five years and counting.

I sit on the NIH RECOVER and RECOVER-TLC working groups where I watched how research on invisible illness actually gets done and who gets left out of it.

I've also helped design one of the largest Long COVID clinical trials about to launch.

And I've spent five years inside a patient community that knows exactly where the system fails.

So I built TrialPilot with two engineers I've worked with for a decade. Clinical trials that come to you instead of asking you to come to them.

We have partnerships lined up to launch a handful of pilot studies over the next few months. We're also competing in the HHS TOPx Tech Sprint for AI and Invisible Illness.

Most of you have probably never run a clinical trial. Most people haven't. What you do know is software, and how it feels when software is good or bad, and how a sick person or researcher on the other end of it might feel.

First impressions and honest feedback welcome. Reply here or send me an email (on the webpage). I read everything.

Thanks for checking it out!

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