Goldenly

Goldenly is a voice first daily companion that helps dependants stay independent—health, home, and help in one place.

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Inspiration

With a growing aging population, care has become more important than ever—but coordinating it is getting harder. Families often live in different cities or countries, while members need timely help with medicines, appointments, checkups, transport, and everyday tasks. Goldenly was inspired by the idea that care should feel connected, simple, and proactive rather than fragmented.

What it does

Goldenly is a care-coordination platform for members, families, and trusted circles.

It helps users:

  • Create and manage member care profiles
  • Set medicine and wellbeing reminders
  • Schedule health checkups, diagnostics, transport, household help, shopping, companion visits, and digital assistance
  • Manage appointments, documents, and service requests in one place
  • Invite trusted family members or caregivers with controlled access
  • Receive reminders and upcoming-care visibility through web and mobile apps
  • Use a voice-first Goldenly AI assistant in English and Telugu to ask questions, view care information, and create service requests conversationally

How we built it

We built Goldenly as a full-stack platform:

  • Leveraged OpenAI GPT 5.6 Terra andn Codex platform for building this seamlessly.
  • Rails 8 backend with PostgreSQL, clean service objects, concerns, APIs, and role-based profile access
  • Hotwire, Turbo Frames, Turbo Streams, and Stimulus for a responsive web experience
  • Expo/React Native mobile app for iOS and Android
  • Used GPT 5.6 Luna for AI voice agent conversations.
  • OpenAI-powered conversational care assistant using RubyLLM and member context
  • Speech recognition and text-to-speech for the voice-first mobile experience
  • Twilio-based OTP authentication flows for email and phone sign-in
  • Google Places integration for structured global addresses, location, country, and coordinates
  • Dockerized setup designed for Cloud Run deployment
  • Service-request and reminder data models that feed dashboards, calendars, and mobile care views

Challenges we ran into

  • Designing care access so one user can coordinate multiple members without exposing the wrong profile’s information
  • Making voice interactions reliable across mobile devices, especially audio routing to the phone speaker
  • Handling conversational requests that require follow-up questions, such as choosing a date and time for a health checkup
  • Supporting global phone numbers, country codes, addresses, and location data
  • Making reminder and recurring-calendar logic useful without overwhelming users
  • Configuring iOS builds while using a free Apple development account, which does not support push notification capabilities
  • Keeping the platform production-ready with multi-database Rails configuration, Docker, SMTP, and Cloud Run deployment setup

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Built a connected care platform across web and mobile, not just a prototype screen flow
  • Created a member-centric model that supports family coordination and trusted-circle access
  • Added a voice-first AI assistant that can understand care-related requests and initiate workflows
  • Implemented structured service requests across medical, diagnostics, household, transport, shopping, companion, and digital-support needs
  • Built multilingual support for English and Telugu for the hackathon
  • Added Google Places-based address capture to make future emergency routing and provider matching possible
  • Designed the foundation for notifications, provider onboarding, emergency alerts, and care-service fulfillment

What we learned

We learned that care technology is not only about reminders or booking services—it is about trust, context, and reducing stress for families. Voice interactions can make the experience much more accessible, but they need careful handling of confirmations, language, audio behavior, and safety boundaries.

We also learned that AI is most useful when it is connected to real workflows and trusted data. Instead of only answering questions, Goldenly can use member context to help coordinate actual care actions.

What’s next for Goldenly

  • Launch the care-provider onboarding platform and connect requests to verified providers
  • Add emergency workflows: trusted-circle alerts, country-based emergency calling, and nearby hospital routing
  • Enable production push notifications through a paid Apple Developer account and Android Firebase configuration
  • Improve AI-agent follow-up conversations, personalization, and multilingual support
  • Add provider availability, live booking, request tracking, and service completion updates
  • Introduce wearable and health-device integrations where users consent
  • Add subscription plans and a scalable global deployment on Google Cloud Run

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