TED - Productivity App

✨ Try out our Figma prototype here

Inspiration

We all procrastinate a lot—especially our team. We didn't do anything the first night, changed our idea five times, and finally decided on an idea at 5 pm on Saturday. We decided it would be a good idea to create a project that would help solve procrastination.

What it does

It tracks your open tabs on your computer and starts yelling at you if you're being unproductive.

How we built it

We created a mockup through Figma, a backend through Python, and our AI is completely powered by voiceflow.

Challenges we ran into

Voiceflow has very limited documentation for their Voice agents, especially if you want to use a third-party deepfake.
We tried making a progressive web app that none of us had ever used before.
~~Connecting the frontend to the backend~~

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are most proud of our rockstar UI/UX designer, Winston Zhao. He was able to go from wireframe to a full-fledge high-fidelity markup for two separate ideas ALL ON HIS OWN.

We are also really proud of our idea. As first-year university students living away from home, we don't have our parents to berate us when we aren't studying hard enough. TED is a little taste of our parent's love that we didn't know we needed.

What we learned

One of the mistakes we made early on was not spending enough time formalizing and choosing an idea. We ended up spending the first half of the hackathon working on a completely different idea, only to scrap it and start from scratch. Luckily, we settled on an idea we liked and made TED. In the end, we learned the importance of choosing the right product and pivoting ideas when the necessity arises.

What's next for TED

We would like to switch technologies to a more convenient format: from a progressive web app to a desktop widget. We would also like to add voice and personality customization options.