eazzZy sleep

landing screen
sign in screen-- phone number and destination required
welcome screen
twilio automated SMS receipt

Inspiration

Dozing off before an important event or situation is one of the most dangerous games anyone could play, especially for exhausted individuals catching a red eye bus trip home. Without anyone to rouse them, there is a risk involved in missing the exit. This raises a huge dilemma that every person has probably experienced before. To sleep or not to sleep?

What it does

Thankfully, eazzZy sleep uses location tracking to calculate the relative distance between your inputted destination and your current location. After determining that this distance is less than or equal to ten kilometers, eazzZy sleep will send an automated SMS message in order to let you know that your stop should be coming up soon. This ensures that late night commuters never have to wake up in a startled state, panicking internally to see if they slept through their stop. Just turning on their ringer is needed to audibly receive the text message before they can fall into a peaceful slumber.

How we built it

The frontend components (landing, sign-in, and welcome templates) were designed in Figma and programmed with html and css. The design was intended to be for users travelling late at night, therefore dark colours were utilized for minimal eye irritation. Python with geopy & geocoder libraries were used for the main script that took the imputed location and converted it into latitude and longitude coordinates for manipulation. Twilio’s SMS API was used to send automated SMS receipts to the user’s inputted phone number.

Challenges we ran into

Connecting frontend and backend together within python
All the additional requirements for setting up a Flask directory
Some authentication bugs with setting up Twilio credentials
- And of course regular bugs!! 🪲

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a minimalistic, yet stylish frontend (included some css animations!)
Learning a handful of new technologies all at once and branching out from just developing frontend applications
Learning Twilio in a short period of time and how to make respective calls in python

What we learned

Incorporating automated SMS text messages was tricky. But after obtaining the first test SMS message, we knew it was worth it to continue with this idea. We also learned how to incorporate multiple python libraries all at once in order to decode locations and leverage multiple processors on our single machines.