Inspiration
The proposal for the idea came from our teammate Guy after a thought about some other ideas.
What it does
It asks you for a location you need to be in tomorrow and calculates the time it takes you to get there, adds in a factor of you getting up (which is currently just half an hour), and subtracts that from the time you need to be in the location for the optimal time to get up for you.
How I built it
We built it using a web-app because it was a platform of choice. This is just a prototype as an actual alarm clock could not run from the browser. We save the alarms on an SQL database using AJAX and use the Google Maps JavaScript API in order to get the time and distance.
Challenges I ran into
We couldn't figure out how to develop for Android in time, so we had to build a demo website.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I'm proud of the autocomplete from Google maps and the PHP SQL database implementation.
What I learned
I learned to use RapidAPI, Google Maps API for JavaScript, and a little bit of CSS and design as well.
What's next for GetUp
Next, we're planning on making an actual app, adding the MisFit tracker to track REM sleep in order to wake up on an even more optimal time, and adding in a social element as well.
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