Inspiration
There’s nothing worse than waking up from a nap feeling even more tired than before! When we’re stressed or exhausted, our productivity often suffers. While sleep is essential for our wellbeing, balancing healthy sleep habits with busy schedules can be challenging. What starts as a quick power nap can easily turn into hours of unintended sleep, leaving us with less time to complete our work and feeling even more overwhelmed. That’s why we created Doze: an AI-powered sleep and wellness companion that helps users build healthier sleep habits and transform naps into personalised, restorative breaks tailored to boost energy, improve focus, and enhance productivity.
What it does
Doze helps users to get the most out of their day by recommending the best times to nap, sleep and wake up based on their schedule, habits and user feedback. Using calendar events and personal reflections, an AI will predict the best nap times and automatically wake users through a rigorous alarm system featuring a activity to wake the brain and humanoid voice to summarise their day ahead. Users can also track their day, dreams or late-night thoughts by using a built-in journal to allow them to gain a deeper understanding of their sleep patterns. By bringing together intelligent sleep planning, AI suggestions and assistance and personal reflection, Doze makes healthier sleep habits more accessible, helping users feel refreshed, improve their wellbeing and stay productive throughout the day.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating the Gemini API and understanding how to structure requests and handle responses correctly.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Transforming a common problem, accidental oversleeping, into a practical AI-driven solution that promotes wellbeing and productivity.
What we learned
- How to integrate and work with the Gemini API to generate AI powered recommendations.
- Problem-solving under time pressure
- The importance of user-focused design
- Teamwork and collaboration during a hackathon
- Full-stack development and system integration
What's next for Doze
- Automatically block or silence distracting apps while napping to prevent disturbances to sleep
- Creating AI generated dream visualisations that turn dream journal entries into images
