Inspiration
A man sees a fire on the building. Unable to help, he does what he does best—keeps recording video.
What it does
AlertRun is a life-saving emergency alert app that instantly notifies nearby users when a disaster is detected. Imagine this: User A spots a fire at the bottom of a tall building. No matter how loud they shout, people inside can't hear them. With AlertRun, User A taps their phone 3 times, starts live streaming, and within seconds — everyone in nearby buildings receives a loud phone call-style alarm with the live video feed. The core idea: Combine the urgency of a phone call (loud, immediate, hard to ignore) with the reach of live streaming (one-to-many broadcast). The more people tap the emergency button, the more serious the incident becomes, and the louder the alarm rings for everyone nearby.
How we built it
The first step is to design the User Interface, it must be super simplistic, minimalistic, responsive, simple buttons, anyone can use. Next, just keep brainstorm and think, what's possible, what do I want, how to save people.
Challenges we ran into
We cannnot do backend. The live streaming part. And the AI part.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Its intuitive and simple design. The idea is pure. Saves hundreds of lives. Potentially. With a cost of course. But hey the cost is the challenge!
What we learned
Tech-wise, this is my first time learning Clerk and Convex—super complicated stuff. But thanks to Cursor and Claude Code, we got it compiling error-free.
What's next for AlertRun
Looking for someone to make it into reality with drastically cheaper cost so it could saves hundreds of thousands of lives.
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