Thought process
A few days ago I was on a bus to a concert and I was really sleepy, the fear of sleeping through my stop gave me an idea of a phone app that wakes you up before the stop, so you can take naps without the fear of missing your departure.
The idea so far
The basic concept of the app so far:
- Type in the bus stop which will be the final destination (Probably a map with stops which you can click on paired with a search bar method).
- Once you’ve chosen your destination stop, you can set a personalized time buffer to activate the alarm before reaching the stop.
- Default time buffer selection in the settings and premade journey templates
- Example: School students go to the same destination everyday and probably want to be woken up the same time before exiting the bus.
- Journey templates could be enabled with a click of a button, possibly outside the app using a widget on the phone screen.
How would it work?
I have not gotten to much into it yet, but i believe it would simply track your GPS location and check how much time is left to the destination.
What if no GPS? :( Then we could use internet to track the buses location, however that would require knowing the bus the person is using.
Main reason of the app
Even though the app might not be crazy useful, I belive there are people like me who value napping and understand how important each second is you spend setting up the alarm. This app would help me not lose that amazing feeling of getting into a nap after suddenly starting to feel sleepy, which calculating and setting the alarm definetly does ruin.
Accountability
I really wish to complete this project and with that goal in mind I will try to monitor and write about my progress in this blog.