meditate live

Inspiration

Meditation is a powerful life hack for our mental health. Many of us struggle to practice by ourselves. Our stress is worsened by the pandemic, and social distancing makes us crave human connection.

What it does

Improve your meditation practice with a live, online accountability partner.

User selects a 20-minute time slot to meditate with a buddy.
User gets an email invite to join the waiting room.
As the session starts, user is randomly paired with another user.
Both users greet each other and begin meditation.
Bell rings when the session timer ends.
Both users thank each other and exit the session.
User gives feedback and schedules the next session.

How we built it

Figma (UI) / Flask (frontend) / Vue.js (backend) / Daily.co (video chat API)

Challenges we ran into

We had to simplify the scope to core functionality to meet the deadline. We used a video chat API for the first time, which took some tinkering.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created something that helps us meditate better. We converted an idea into something functional within a weekend. First hackathon for Sam and Akshay.