Background
Everyone needs a mental health break every now and then, but sometimes, we just can't switch out of work mode.
In a world in which the lines between work and life have become more blurred than ever due to COVID-19, it's more important than ever to keep track of our mental health and take time out of our days to de-stress and calm the nerves.
What's Unwind?
Unwind is an app that incentivizes users to regularly take breaks and improve their mental health by incentivizing every day activities. Our application prompts the user with de-stressing activities including, but not limited to the following:
- Watching Netflix
- Going on walks
- Meditating
- Reading favorite books
The user can then select an activity to do for themselves, mark it as complete when done, and earn points to their account. Ideally, we would like for people to be able to redeem these points with company sponsors.
Engineering
Unwind was designed with a front end delivered using React Native, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and a back end built on Python with Flask, deployed to Google App Engine.
Challenges we ran into
Some of these tools and technologies were new to us, so we had a huge learning curve!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of our idea/design as we felt like the problem we were trying to solve could be a huge help to people. Additionally, we're proud of how much we were able to pick up and learn from one another within a span of 36 hours!
What's next for Unwind
We would love to be able to get companies in on the idea, in order to provide rewards for people who earn enough points on the app.
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