🌟 Inspiration
It's 11pm. I'm on holiday with my friends, and we've just returned to our hotel. Exhausted - all I want to do is sleep. What's the plan for tomorrow? What time does my family want to head out? Most importantly - what time should I set my alarm?
It's painful forcing myself to stay up and wait for a decision to be made, just to set an alarm. I already know that I need an hour to get ready before heading out, could someone just set an alarm for me once they've decided?
📋 What it does
ChimeIn automatically creates an alarm for each group member based on their preferred timing before the meet-up. But that’s not all— ChimeIn also keeps track of who has stopped, snoozed, or missed their alarm, so you’ll know exactly who might need an extra nudge to wake up on time. It’s the perfect tool to keep your group punctual and ready to go.
For example:
- I set my alarm preference on ChimeIn to “1 hour before the meeting time.”
- My friends decide to meet at 9am the next day and create the meet-up on ChimeIn.
- ChimeIn automatically sets an alarm for me at 8am.
- At 8am, I turn off my alarm and get ready.
- At 8:45am, I check ChimeIn and notice that my friend has snoozed her alarm three times. Realizing she might not be ready on time, I decide it’s time to give her a wake-up call.
👨🏽💻 How we built it
Frontend: Flutter
Backend: MongoDB
🚧 Challenges we ran into
- Learning Flutter on the spot: Chose a language that none of us have experience in because completing the app in 24 hours wasn't enough of a challenge for us :')
- Buggy development environment: When the app functions on everyone else's device except yours...
- One man down: When life gives you other commitments, you can't git commit 😔
💪 Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Successfully learning Flutter and pushing out an app within 24 hours :D
- Getting proper meals, shower, and even sleep (wow!)
🚀 What's next for ChimeIn
- Wake-up verifier: Are your friends really awake? Complete a task to turn off the alarm! Helps to ensure that your friends are truly awake.
- Snoozers are losers: In-app call function to wake-up that friend that has snoozed too many times. Do-not-disturb turned on? No worries, we can bypass that.
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