MiniMe

MiniMe is a digital tamagotchi - inspired simulator with a twist; instead of taking care of a pet, you’re taking care of YOU!

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Inspiration

Students often juggle a full course load, a part-time job, and involvement in student clubs on campus. While they might excel academically and socially, some students report feeling like they are “running on autopilot” during busy weeks. Too often, students unintentionally skip meals, forget to hydrate themselves, or push through fatigue simply because their schedules leave no space to take care of themselves.

Inspiration by popular gamified apps like Forest, which turns focus-building into a rewarding activity, and Pou, which makes care routines feel playful, our vision is to create a light, supportive game that reminds students to care for themselves. Completed tasks level up your MiniMe, making self-care feel less like another task, and more like something enjoyable and sustainable.

What it does

MiniMe is your gentle companion that helps you take care of yourself, without adding to your busy days. Take care of yourself like how you would nurture your MiniMe: sleep on time, have regular meal time, hydrate yourself, and so an activity daily to keep yourself happy!

Features:

  • Gamification - uses playful, low-pressure game elements to reduce the mental resistance behind self-care
  • Customization - personalizable user character and reminders to align with their goals, keeping them consistent
  • Synchronization - syncs with real-time data such as time and local weather to display different character states

How we built it

We developed the project with React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and integrated external APIs to deliver real-time updates within the app.

Challenges we ran into

Included formatting all of the elements properly on our Dashboard page (CSS sucks) and not having enough time to implement more of our designs that we mocked out in Figma into proper code.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to deploy the app so others can try it out, we made hand-drawn illustrations for our MiniMe avatar, and we all contributed to create something functional that looked good in the 18 hours we were given in this Hackathon.

What we learned

When we coded the Dashboard page we learned to debug in CSS especially using the inspect element and being able to look exactly where margins lie. Additionally, we learned to communicate and appreciate each other more as we all had difficult tasks to do throughout the entire Hackathon.

What's next for MiniMe

We plan on implementing the customization feature of your avatar to add fun accessories, fixing any lingering formatting issues that occurred during the Hackathon, adding the proper buttons for feed, sleep, hydrate, and activity so you can boost the stats of your avatar more effectively, and lastly adding buttons for analytics and edit reminders so you can see all of your past activity for the week as a bar graph and be able to make proper reminders of when your going to eat breakfast for example to help you in your everyday life.

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