Dumb and Dumber (093)

We have chose to tackle the Education Issue.

Inspiration

In this digital day and age, procrastination is becoming increasingly prevalent among students. Rather than studying or working on school assignments, students tend to engage in other leisure activities such as browsing social media and watching shows on streaming services like Netflix. Consequently, more often than not, they end up having to rush their assignments which may compromise the work quality and affect their learning. This is only one of the many adverse effects that procrastination can have on students.

Students are usually aware that they procrastinate but cannot seem to break the cycle of procrastination. Hence, we created Dopamine to make it easier for students to stop procrastinating for good.

What it does

Our web application aims to help students stop procrastinating by having them go through a 14-day challenge. The only rule is to avoid engaging in activities that one enjoys, such as hobbies, or those that stimulate the brain, for example, browsing social media and listening to music. With this in mind, app users are to come up with a daily schedule consisting of task goals that abide by this rule before embarking on the 14-day journey to end procrastination.

We understand how hard it can be to abstain oneself from doing things that we enjoy. To make it a bit easier, users are grouped with 3-4 other users to form a support system to keep one another in check; they may view their fellow group members' daily to-do lists and plan to complete tasks together.

Users may also record down their reflections on a daily basis throughout the challenge to keep themselves on track.

To complement this challenge, users may also make use of the Telegram bot @dumb_motivational_bot to view motivational content and keep track of their 14-day challenge progress on the go.