this is alarm chat.
Even though people got adjusted to alarms, for lot of people they are actually annoying. we hit the snooze button like a million times. and then you'd end up late and the whole morning feels off. we don’t wanna get up from the bed, but we wanna get in time for our daily schedule.
basically, the transition of being asleep to be awake and aware has to be smooth.
my dad used to use this technique of instead of coming and poking me in the morning, he used to sit next to me and gently talk to me, he'd say something, i'd mumble back, he'd say something else, and slowly i'd wake up and as i try responding to him, that worked way better than any alarm ever did.
anyway, it should obviously not talk crap. what ever it talks, it should make sense. it should be related. it should put our brain to work.
so it should have access to read your calendar, you schedule, what you’re interested to talk about, the things you're working on, what you need to do in the day, where you need to be and on and on. and it should also remember pretty much everything about you of what ever you say.
and in the evening, you can talk to it like writing a diary. tell it what happened during the day, what you did, what you're thinking about. it remembers. and then the next morning, it uses all of that to create a custom wake up conversation for you. how visceral.
i think this is how the experience would be like
it starts by playing some gentle music and slowly starts to talk, maybe it’ll start to ask questions about what you’re exited about yesterday or what you’re about to do today. like if you are attending an event, what are you gonna wear or whom you might be meeting. or tells you about news related to something you care about. it's not blasting noise at you. it's pulling you into the day with words that you’d feel like talking back even with the subconscious state.
you respond, even if it's just a grunt at first. it keeps going. asks a question. reminds you of something. and as you talk back, you wake up. naturally. thinking. engaged.
i actually worked on this for a hackathon, it kinda works but still needs work to be done. it just somehow ended up into the corpus of unfinished projects. lol
so i think this is what it wholly needs
hardware:
your phone or a smart speaker.
software:
voice conversation model that sounds natural. (eleven labs wold just suffice)
calendar integration
news api access
diary processing, takes your evening voice notes and structures them into memory.
a vector database (weaviate would do)
a memory layer (supermemory would just work)
the app (mobile/web):
evening diary mode, talk through your day before bed.
morning conversation customization, set what topics you want it to cover.
calendar permissions, connect to your google/apple calendar
news preferences, choose sources and topics.
wake up history, see what it talked about each morning.
sleep schedule settings, when to start the wake up conversation.
**the ideal things it should have:**
sounds like a person, not a voice assistant. warm, natural, conversational.
adapts to your response style, if you're chatty in the mornings it goes deeper, if you're brief it keeps it short.
a gentle escalation, if you're not responding, it gets a bit more persistent without being annoying.
context awareness, knows the difference between a workday and a weekend, adjusts tone accordingly.
learns your patterns, knows what gets you thinking and engaged.
works offline for basic wake up, doesn't need internet to function.
respects your mood, if you sound stressed it doesn't push, if you sound good it engages more.
integrates with do not disturb modes, doesn't wake you during important sleep windows.
family aware, if you have a partner it knows to speak softly until you're out of bed.
waking up is the first moment of every day. if that moment feels thoughtful instead of jarring, the whole day starts better.
note: i’d be happy to talk about it further or help you build this. dm me on any of my socials.