Inspiration
When attention, overwhelm or disrupted routines make everyday tasks hard to start, a manageable first step can help. RiseQuest supports people who benefit from structure, encouragement and accessible choices throughout their day, including those who select cognitive-support preferences during onboarding.
RiseQuest brings those moments together: waking up, getting started, staying focused and finding encouragement when a task feels too big. The idea is simple: make a day more manageable, one achievable action at a time.
What it does
Begin with your needs. Onboarding offers optional cognitive-support settings, including ADHD and ADD preferences; untimed challenges; practice areas such as memory, attention and reasoning; reduced sensory settings; dyslexia-friendly fonts; captions; and a choice of layout. Users choose goals such as a consistent morning routine, better focus or managing stress, so support starts with their own priorities.
Start the morning your way. Create an alarm, choose a sound and prepare a personal wake-up message. Pick a realistic voice, save your favourite and hear the saved message before the tone, even offline. Choose one, two or three readings. Brain-teasing challenges add an active step to waking up, with a choice of difficulty and stop/snooze controls. Choose a Wake Buddy directly while setting the alarm, then open their number when you want encouragement.
Turn a big task into a starting point. Enter a task such as “organize my workspace” and ask for a breakdown. NVIDIA Nemotron on Nebius returns practical steps inside the quest, with descriptions and time estimates. Review the suggestions, adjust your plan and work through it in Focus Mode. The generated guidance becomes part of the quest, ready to act on.
Choose an AI companion for encouragement and practical support. Sol is one of several companions, alongside characters such as Nova, Orbit and Ember. Discuss a task by text or voice, review the suggested quest and confirm it to save a concrete starting point in Quest Center. Voice conversations can continue while you use other features, with the companion minimized into a floating view. Companions can open app screens and help manage alarms, quests and owned cosmetics. Changes such as deleting or renaming an alarm show the exact target and wait for confirmation; purchases show the price before you agree.
Plan around the time and energy you have. The companion considers today's workload, priorities and available time, with space for breaks. Edit quest steps, keep private notes and use mood, energy and focus check-ins to shape a manageable plan.
Unlock Lumen, the lantern-bearing fox. Lumen includes the shared companion chat and planning tools, plus screen reading, document and image reading, and captured-text notes you can save and revisit. Screen capture starts with your permission; device speech provides a free reading option. Notes and buddy messages are one tap away from icon shortcuts on your profile, alongside your chosen banner.
Find support that fits the moment. Personalized coaching and wake-up messages complement mood check-ins, coping routines and focus tools. These tools support everyday productivity and wellbeing. Age-aware experiences provide curated routines for children, while eligible adults can use external AI generation.
How I built it
Various tools were used during development.
Nebius Token Factory brings NVIDIA Nemotron into three everyday RiseQuest experiences: turning overwhelming tasks into manageable steps, providing personalized coaching and creating personal wake-up messages. These capabilities connect directly to the app's alarms, quests and focus tools, helping users move from intention to action.
A shared server-side generation layer gives Nemotron focused instructions and relevant preference context for each experience. It validates responses before presenting them as actionable quest steps, coaching replies or wake-up messages. Safety checks and age-aware handling support appropriate use, while retry-safe points handling protects users from duplicate generation charges.
The React Native app connects to an Express API and PostgreSQL. Token Factory's hosted inference API supports the generation workflow, while the deployed backend manages accounts, preferences and saved activity. Private credentials, account isolation and tested backup restoration support the service behind the mobile experience.
What changed during the hackathon
Since September, I have developed RiseQuest across its mobile experience, AI capabilities and hosted service. I integrated Nebius-powered generation across three features; strengthened account isolation, offline startup, age handling and subscription state; built the native iOS validation and signed-delivery workflow; improved Android alarm recovery; and refined quest, profile, contact and purchase dialogs for scrolling, keyboard access and clearer interaction.
I added saved realistic wake-up voices, an in-form Wake Buddy choice and an Android lock-screen alarm pop-up. I also improved sleep and coping experiences, added age-aware ad controls and accessible privacy choices, migrated the backend with data-preservation and recovery checks, and prepared a public MIT-licensed source snapshot, installable Android judging build and real-device demo. Together, these changes make the connected routine experience more practical to use and easier to evaluate.
Improvements since the October 11 submission
I expanded RiseQuest with an AI companion experience: selectable characters, voice conversations, a floating companion across app screens, conversational task support and user-confirmed quest creation. The new demonstration follows Sol as one of those companions, from a workspace conversation to a saved quest and its first step.
Personalization now includes untimed challenges, practice preferences, sensory settings and reading options. Adaptive practice adjusts to recent performance, while daily routines keep a checklist and saved progress close at hand. I also refined alarm voice preparation, improved quest recovery and strengthened the Android sign-in experience. The latest update adds time-aware planning, editable quest steps, saved notes, paced breaks and Lumen's reading tools. Companion shop cards now show every shared feature clearly, with Lumen's additional tools listed separately. Profile banners and direct Notes/Messages shortcuts make personal tools easier to reach. Optional spending controls keep generation budgets separate from explicitly authorised, capped point recharge.
Challenges and what I learned
The hardest part was making the pieces behave well together. An alarm must recover its controls when the app resumes. A form must retain focus when the keyboard opens. An AI result must be useful in its destination, handle failure safely and avoid interrupting the user just to announce something already visible.
I exercised all three generation paths with real Nebius requests and tested the mobile experience on an Android phone. Automated checks cover account boundaries, safety, billing and interface regressions; iPhone and iPad simulator captures add another view of the experience. This taught me to evaluate how a generated answer helps someone act within the app.
Accomplishments and next steps
As a solo builder, I am proud of connecting practical AI to a working mobile routine: from a personal wake-up message to a concrete first task step. Judges can install the Android test build, follow the demo and inspect the public source. The companion now connects supported spoken requests to navigation and confirmed app actions. Next steps focus on broader device testing and making these interactions more reliable in everyday use. I am also continuing store review and refining the experience with user feedback.
Try RiseQuest on Android
Download RiseQuest 1.2.4 — Build 22 APK. This release link has no scheduled expiration. Install the build, complete onboarding and explore alarms, quests and your chosen companion.
Built With
- docker
- express.js
- javascript
- nebius
- node.js
- nvidia-nemotron
- openai
- postgresql
- react-native
