Alexa Skill Hydrate Reminder

Inspiration 💡

My inspiration came from many headaches I'd get after forgetting to drink enough water

What it does 🌊

When this Alexa skill is activated, it sets an automated reminder for an hour from the time you set it so that you don't forget to drink water.

How I built it 👾

I built this off of a template hello world program on the Amazon Alexa Developer console. The program was written with node.js and tested with my amazon echo.

Challenges I ran into 🤔

The biggest challenge I ran into was setting the reminder to occur hourly, so I spent a lot of time researching Alexa's reminder API documentation and unfortunately, I didn't have time to implement the recurring reminder.

Accomplishments/What I learned 🎖

When I started building the program off of the template and Amazon's demo tutorial, I really didn't understand the code/how the developer console worked, but after this weekend I've learned a lot more about programming with javascript, Amazon Alexa, and how APIs work.

What's next for Hydrate Reminder 🔮

I hope to complete the reminder and have it remind the user to drink water hourly, except during the night. I also want to add a feature that tracks the amount of water drunk each day and that can report it back to the user.

Built With

• amazon-alexa
• amazon-reminder-api
• javascript
• node.js