Life Hack Of The Day

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  ‘Life Hack of the Day' gives simple, easy tips to improve your day-today life.

Inspiration

Actually Our Life is very simple n beautiful. But we have made it very complex. Our Life has become fast & hectic. There are so many things in our daily life we struggle. We need simple solution for simple problem. That problem can be related to your mental health to your daily activities like removing stain from your cloths…….and so on. After all, it's sometimes the simplest things in life that matter the most.

‘Life Hack of the Day' will tell you how to improve your life, one life hack at a time

What it does

‘Life Hack of the Day' gives simple, easy tips to improve your day-today life. They are fun tips that make your life run a little bit more smoothly. ‘Life Hack of the Day' cultivates a healthier mindset as well as increases your productivity and efficiency. It will make your life easy.

It provides amazing inspirational/motivational thoughts from scholars around the world, scholars belonging to absolutely different backgrounds (spiritual gurus, techies, philosophers, scientists, movie personalities, politicians, authors, sportsmen, musicians, businessmen, leaders, social workers and so on).

“Just one positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

It also tells you the simple solution for small problems, that can help you save time with some aspect of your life.

Just say, “Alexa open Life Hack of the day” or “Alexa start Life Hack of the day” or “Alexa load Life Hack of the day” etc...

Each day it will have an entirely new Life Hack. Skill also tells you the count of life hack listened so far.

So, use this Amazon Alexa skill, for these life changing facts to comfort your life. Learn every little tips and tricks to do simple things in life.

How I built it

Skill is developed in lambda using online editor provided on aws.amazon.com and uses Amazon DynamoDB‎ to keep track of user progress.

Challenges I ran into

Integrating DynamoDB with Alexa Skill, training tutorials provided on developer.amazon.com helped to quickly integrate this

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Your day will start with a nice little tip, every day. To some extent, this skill gives solution to simple problem. At the same time it tells you how to balance your mental health, which is so vital. Because ultimately ‘You are what you think’. It helps you to improve your life in many areas such as family, relation, happiness, motivation, mental peace.

What I learned

-noSQL DynamoDB,

-iam policy setup to handle read/write permission on DynamoDB.

-Session attributes to read & write from DynamoDB

-Cloudwatch to troubleshoot development issues

Learned a lot about Alexa skill design, and hopefully will be able to create more skills in the future using this knowledge.

What's next for Life Hack Of The Day

• More life hacks will be added, so that it will solve more n more day-today life problems.

• We want to make it habitual for the users, so we can set reminders for that.

• Life hacks will be categorized e.g. Finance, motivational, goal setting, relation…..

• User can repeat today’s life hack or he can ask a life hack of a particular day

• Make this open source github repository so that more such skills will be developed