Schedulr

Inspiration

We started out brainstorming wondering about how hard normal routines must be for people struggling with mental health issues and how few resources there were for helping improve their daily lives. So our original idea was meant for those demographics and it was created to ensure they didn't become overloaded with work, and we wanted to help them decrease their stress levels.

What it does

Schedulr is an accessible platform on slack that can manipulate your google calendars schedule of your daily tasks by getting rid of events, moving events, or scheduling breaks in between events depending on the answers which are given through various questions asked by a bot set up on slack. The bot can also set reminders, and display the overall calendar to see how the day looks.

How we built it

We split the tasks up and then integrated it into a bigger complex task. The 3 separate tasks were; getting the google calenders set up and fully functioning for teams and individual members on slack, activating and setting up the functionality of the bot, and creating the API's which would bridge the gap from the calendar and the slack bot to allow the bot to perform the functions it was intended to perform.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest struggle we faced was when it came time to incorporate the API into the slack bot functionality. We had very few resources to go off of and had to essentially trial and error our way through it, which took a pretty long time. Luckily, we each had different strengths in different departments and were pretty adaptable to overcome the challenges we faced under the given timeline we races against.