Together

Inspiration

Group chats are terrible at accountability.

Families lose track of medicine schedules. Friends plan workouts in messages that get buried. Roommates and teams juggle tasks, events, and reminders across WhatsApp, Notes, and Google Calendar — and still miss things.

We built Together because coordination shouldn't feel like chaos. One shared space per group (family, gym crew, roommates, work team) with tasks, calendar, notes, and chat — plus health-oriented flows like medicine reminders and group fitness activities — so people manage time and health in one place, not across five apps.

What it does

Together is a full-stack web app for shared life management:

Spaces — isolated hubs for family, friends, fitness groups, or work crews
Tasks — assign work, track completion, send assignment emails
Calendar — events, deadlines, and recurring activities in one view
Notes — shared context that doesn't disappear in chat scrollback
Chat — threaded discussion tied to the same space

Health & time features

Medicine reminders — recurring events/tasks with clear ownership (e.g. "Dad — evening dose at 8 PM")
Group fitness — schedule walks, gym sessions, or challenges; everyone sees the plan and can confirm
Tell Together — natural-language input to create events and tasks ("Remind us to take vitamins every morning at 7" / "Yoga Saturday 6 AM with the group")

UX

Day/night themes
PWA-ready — installable on phone/desktop
Invite-based onboarding so only your group gets in

How we built it

Frontend: Next.js + TypeScript, responsive UI, theme switching, PWA shell

Backend & data: Neon Postgres + Prisma for spaces, members, tasks, events, notes, and messages

Auth: Clerk — sign-in, sessions, and per-space access control

Email: Resend for task assignment and reminder notifications

AI layer: intent parsing for Tell Together — user text → structured task/event payloads (title, time, recurrence, assignee)

Deploy: Vercel for the live demo

Architecture (high level)

[ \text{User input} \xrightarrow{\text{NL parse}} {\text{task}, \text{event}, t, \text{assignee}} \xrightarrow{\text{Prisma}} \text{Postgres} \xrightarrow{\text{notify}} \text{Resend} ]

Recurring reminders (medicine, fitness) map to events with recurrence rules; completion tracking uses the task model with assignees and status.

Challenges we ran into

Group state vs. chat noise — Chat and planning had to stay linked but separate; we used spaces so tasks/events don't get lost in messages.
Natural language → reliable structure — "Remind mom about her medicine tonight" must become a valid event with time and owner; we iterated on parsing and validation before writing to the DB.
Permissions in shared spaces — Who can create reminders, assign tasks, or edit group fitness events? Clerk + space membership rules took careful modeling.
Recurring health reminders — Medicine and fitness need repeat schedules, not one-off todos; modeling recurrence in Prisma without overcomplicating the UI was non-trivial.
Mobile-first habits — Health use cases are often on-phone; PWA + responsive layouts mattered as much as desktop polish.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Shipped a live, deployed coordination app — not just a mockup
End-to-end stack: auth, DB, email, AI parsing, frontend
Tell Together — plain English → real tasks and calendar entries
Health angle on a general product: medicine reminders and group fitness without a separate "health app"
Clean space-based model that scales from family care to friend groups to small teams
Open source on GitHub with a public demo

What we learned

Time management and health management overlap — reminders, schedules, and accountability are the same primitives (tasks + events + notifications).
Groups need ownership — "Someone should remind Dad" fails; "Assigned to X, due at Y" works.
NL interfaces help adoption — especially for non-technical family members setting medicine or fitness reminders.
Full-stack integration is the hard part — auth boundaries, DB schema, and email/notifications must align or the product feels broken.
Shipping beats feature sprawl: one space, one calendar, one task list — then layer health use cases on top.

What's next for Together

Smarter reminders — snooze, escalation if a medicine task isn't marked done, optional SMS/push
Fitness streaks & group stats — weekly goals, attendance on group activities, lightweight leaderboards
Health templates — "Family medicine schedule," "30-day group walk challenge" one-click setups
Wearable / calendar sync — Google Calendar export, Apple Health-style activity hooks
Offline-friendly PWA — view today's reminders and mark tasks complete without connectivity
Privacy controls — health spaces with stricter visibility (e.g. medicine logs visible only to caregivers)