Inspiration

As busy college students, we understand the difficulties when it comes to waking up, especially to old-school default phone alarms. Alara is our solution.

What it does

An intelligent alarm app with AI-powered voice briefings that helps you wake up informed and ready for the day. It takes data from your calendar, email, the weather and news to give you a comprehensive summary of the upcoming day.

How we built it

  • A LOT of Cursor, Claude, and Chat

Challenges we ran into

  • Working with SwiftUI and the Apple Ecosystem—Apple doesn't have a framework that would allow developers to create alarms like the ones found in the Apple Clock App
    • To create alarms with custom sounds, they have to be transformed into a particular audio format and specifications
  • Google OAuth and connecting authentication from frontend to gmail and calendar api

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Creating an iOS app with very little experience in SwiftUI
  • Integrating LiveKit for TTS and STT
  • Designing a sleek logo

What we learned

  • iOS development

What's next for Alara

Launching on the app store Todo list widget and tab Punishments for the missing an alarm and challenges to wake up

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