Stride

Study planner that adapts to your brain, not the other way around.

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Inspiration

I am an (undiagnosed) person struggling with ADHD and anxiety. So are many other people. Society and education based software is almost always not built to accomodate the perils of neurodivergence. Dyslexia, sensory overloads, anxiety, focus issues, energy and pacing; people who struggle with these have to fight to perform daily school related tasks. I have never felt seen on that issue, so I decided to build a study planner that works for all.

What it does

Stride is great because it's key feature is organisation, something I and neurodivergent people struggle with. It's easy to gather all the things I need to remember, all my courses and topics under it, all the assessments and links, all my notes I make to remember stuff. You may think of Notion and how it exists, but that has never worked for me due to the clutter and how hard it is to do stuff. Stride is built with clean, semi-minimalist UI to avoid sensory overload. Stride has a topic recommendation system that works around what you struggle with; more quizzes for ADHD, assessments recommended way ahead the due date for anxiety. Stride has special fonts for dyslexic students. It purposely colour codes notes and courses for easier identification. All built for special needs. It adapts to stress days and times and works with that to properly plan how you study, and uses a special celebration for finishing a topic, for extra dopamine.

How we built it

I built Stride with

  • React.js (frontend)
  • Express/ Node.js (backend)
  • MongoDB (database)
  • Netlify/ Google Cloud (hosting)
  • GitHub (version control)
  • Claude / Gemini (Much, much assistance) ## Challenges we ran into Neurodivergence is not a monolith, and it is hard to capture all; even the little I was able to capture is so imperfect at shaping around individual minds. That was the main challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building something for myself, and building something that will make other people feel seen. Trying to make something that will genuinely a potential whole lot of people feel seen is my payoff.

What we learned

Better software development, and how (genuinely) amazing Novus is as a tool. How to research into problems (I read a ton of Reddit pages) and how to pick out general ones for an MVP.

What's next for Stride

I plan on making the code better and actually shipping this as a real thing. Other people would benefit so much from it. Also, doing better research and making it much better and smarter.

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