Memora – An Alzheimer Remediation App
🏆 HackBeanPot 2025 – 1st Place (“Leave No Trace – Social Impact / Sustainability”)
Memories are worth holding on to. Memora helps families navigate dementia by turning treasured photos into engaging, memory‑strengthening games.
🚀 Inspiration
My great‑grandmother’s struggle with dementia showed us how fragile memories can be. When HackBeanPot announced a “Road Trip” theme, we imagined using technology to let users re‑visit the landmarks of their lives—one photo at a time.
📱 What It Does
Memora is a mobile app that acts like a personalized road map through a user’s past:
Upload & Tag Photos — Add snapshots and tag People, Places, and Events.
AI‑Generated Quizzes — Contextual cues prompt the user to recall names, locations, and stories.
TikTok‑style Feed — An infinite scroll of memories keeps engagement fun and familiar.
🛠 Tech Stack
Layer
Tech
Front‑end
React • Material UI • Framer Motion • Lucide React • React Draggable
Back‑end
Supabase (PostgreSQL + Storage)
✨ Key Features
Contextual‑Cue Quizzes – AI builds questions from tagged photos, acting as signposts on a memory road trip.
Scrollable Feed – A smooth, thumb‑friendly timeline for effortless browsing.
Intuitive Tagging – Drag‑and‑drop markers powered by React Image Marker.
🏆 Accomplishments We’re Proud Of
Built a working demo in < 36 hours.
Shipped a pixel‑perfect, swipe‑able feed.
(And yes) successfully infiltrated Stetson East Dining Hall 😈.
🧩 Challenges
Challenge
Take‑away
Photo Tagging UX
Iterated 3 times before finding the right drag‑and‑drop flow
Aligning a shared vision
A detailed product brief became our single source of truth
📚 What We Learned
Teamwork
Late‑night whiteboarding unlocked our best ideas.
A shared “why” kept us user‑focused.
Technical
AI mockup tools like Bolt accelerated design iterations.
Brushing up on React hooks & Supabase auth under time pressure.
Impact
Designing for real users with dementia pushed us to value clarity over flash.
🗺 Roadmap / What’s Next
Family Accounts – Collaborative caregiving & shared photo libraries.
Photo‑Album Import – Seamless Google Photos / iCloud integration.
Notification System – Gentle prompts for spaced‑repetition recall.
ML‑Based Personalization – Curate photos by emotional relevance.
Progress Tracking Dashboards – Insight for both users & caregivers.
Made with ❤️ by Shrey · Aditya · Kaleb · Slava at HackBeanPot 2025.