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▲ 1 r/sleep

I've always used to never have that much trouble getting out of bed. Waking up at 6 am every day during high school felt like a breeze.

However, when I started college this year, I struggled to find the motivation to stop hitting the snooze button even for my 10 am classes.

A few months ago, I tried a weird system: I came up with multiple ways to turn off the morning alarm that would actually require me to get up and move.

I put my phone across the room and had to walk to turn it off.

I made myself do 10 pushups. Walk 200ft around my dorm. Climb a couple of flights of stairs. Walk around my suite and take a picture of something.

Basically, I had to move to fully wake up my brain

The first few days sucked. But eventually, something shifted. These small activities that I forced myself to do in the morning were suddenly making me feel more awake and alert. I even started chaining some of them together to be more effective (Ex, walk 200 feet - do 20 push-ups -> take a picture of a cartoon of eggs in my fridge -> say a positive affirmation).

This system worked so well, I decided to build an app around it. It’s called Unsnooze. Instead of hitting the snooze button on your phone alarm every morniing,, the alarm WILL NOT GO OFF unless you get out of bed and do something. Anything.

You just need to win your mornings in some way.

Curious if anyone else has tried something like this. What worked for you?

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u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 11 days ago
▲ 0 r/getdisciplined

I've always used to never have that much trouble getting out of bed. Waking up at 6 am every day during high school felt like a breeze.

However, when I started college this year, I struggled to find the motivation to stop hitting the snooze button even for my 10 am classes.

A few months ago, I tried a weird system: I came up with multiple ways to turn off the morning alarm that would actually require me to get up and move.

I put my phone across the room and had to walk to turn it off.

I made myself do 10 pushups. Walk 200ft around my dorm. Climb a couple of flights of stairs. Walk around my suite and take a picture of something.

Basically, I had to move to fully wake up my brain

The first few days sucked. But eventually, something shifted. These small activities that I forced myself to do in the morning were suddenly making me feel more awake and alert. I even started chaining some of them together to be more effective (Ex, walk 200 feet - do 20 push-ups -> take a picture of a cartoon of eggs in my fridge -> say a positive affirmation).

This system worked so well, I decided to build an app around it. It’s called Unsnooze. Instead of hitting the snooze button on your phone alarm every morniing,, the alarm WILL NOT GO OFF unless you get out of bed and do something. Anything.

You just need to win your mornings in some way.

Curious if anyone else has tried something like this. What worked for you?

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u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 11 days ago
▲ 0 r/ProductivityApps

I've always used to never have that much trouble getting out of bed. Waking up at 6 am every day during high school felt like a breeze.

However, when I started college this year, I struggled to find the motivation to stop hitting the snooze button even for my 10 am classes.

A few months ago, I tried a weird system: I came up with multiple ways to turn off the morning alarm that would actually require me to get up and move.

I put my phone across the room and had to walk to turn it off.

I made myself do 10 pushups. Walk 200ft around my dorm. Climb a couple of flights of stairs. Walk around my suite and take a picture of something.

Basically, I had to move to fully wake up my brain

The first few days sucked. But eventually, something shifted. These small activities that I forced myself to do in the morning were suddenly making me feel more awake and alert. I even started chaining some of them together to be more effective (Ex, walk 200 feet - do 20 push-ups -> take a picture of a cartoon of eggs in my fridge -> say a positive affirmation).

This system worked so well, I decided to build an app around it. It’s called Unsnooze. Instead of hitting the snooze button on your phone alarm every morniing,, the alarm WILL NOT GO OFF unless you get out of bed and do something. Anything.

You just need to win your mornings in some way.

Curious if anyone else has tried something like this. What worked for you?

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u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 11 days ago
▲ 1 r/passive_income

As a mobile developer, I've been starting to realize that coding is no longer the hard part: it's actually getting your app out there.

99% of apps fail on the App Store simply because no one knows about them. Therefore, right now it's more important than ever to get good at creating short-form content revolving around your product.

As a full-time student juggling school, internships, and other endeavors, I knew I had to find a way to automate content creation and video scheduling so it wouldn't consume most of my schedule.

That's how I found out about Fastlane.

It's a platform that automatically helps you create, refine, and schedule posts to platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.

It has hundreds of ready-to-use templates based on trending videos.

Fastlane has one of the most generous free tiers out there, and even its monthly plan is a lot cheaper compared to competitors. For those in SaaS / B2c software, I HIGHLY recommend checking it out

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 12 days ago
▲ 1 r/promoteMyApp

As a college student double-majoring in CS and EE, my sleep schedule is nonexistent, and I often lack the motivation to get up in the morning.

So I built an app to fix this. To turn off your alarm clock, you have to get up and move around. The app features a wide variety of both physical and mental challenges. There's a robust alarm retrigger system that ensures that you actually complete the challenge, and you can't just turn off the alarm.

On top of the challenges, the app has several other features, such as an audio library, voice-recorded messages you can set as your alarm, statistics, and more.

Try it out today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsnooze-challenge-alarm/id6758871228

Would appreciate some feedback

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 16 days ago
▲ 1 r/apps

As a college student double-majoring in CS and EE, my sleep schedule is nonexistent, and I often lack the motivation to get up in the morning.

So I built an app to fix this. To turn off your alarm clock, you have to get up and move around. The app features a wide variety of both physical and mental challenges. There's a robust alarm retrigger system that ensures that you actually complete the challenge, and you can't just turn off the alarm.

On top of the challenges, the app has several other features, such as an audio library, voice-recorded messages you can set as your alarm, statistics, and more.

Try it out today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsnooze-challenge-alarm/id6758871228

Would appreciate some feedback

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 16 days ago
▲ 2 r/expo

As a college student double-majoring in CS and EE, my sleep schedule is nonexistent, and I often lack the motivation to get up in the morning.

So I built an app to fix this. To turn off your alarm clock, you have to get up and move around. The app features a wide variety of both physical and mental challenges. There's a robust alarm retrigger system that ensures that you actually complete the challenge, and you can't just turn off the alarm.

On top of the challenges, the app has several other features, such as an audio library, voice-recorded messages you can set as your alarm, statistics, and more.

Here's the tech stack I used:

Front-end: React Native / Expo. Used the Expo Modules API to write a ton Swift to get AlarmKit to work. I plan to port to Android very soon.
Backend: Firebase Cloud Functions (used the Gemini API for the House Hunt Challenge)
DB: SQLite (locally on device)

Try it out today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsnooze-challenge-alarm/id6758871228

Would appreciate some feedback

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 16 days ago
▲ 3 r/reactnative

As a college freshman double-majoring in CS and EE, my sleep schedule is nonexistent, and I often lack the motivation to get up in the morning.

So I built an app to fix this. To turn off your alarm clock, you have to get up and move around. The app features a wide variety of both physical and mental challenges. There's a robust alarm retrigger system that ensures that you actually complete the challenge, and you can't just turn off the alarm.

On top of the challenges, the app has several other features, such as an audio library, voice-recorded messages you can set as your alarm, statistics, and more.

Here's the tech stack I used:

Front-end: React Native / Expo. Wrote a bunch of native code in Swift to get AlarmKit to work. I plan to port to Android very soon.
Backend: Firebase Cloud Functions (used the Gemini API for the House Hunt Challenge)
DB: SQLite (locally on device)

Try it out today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsnooze-challenge-alarm/id6758871228

Would appreciate some feedback

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 17 days ago
▲ 2 r/iosapps

As a freshman in university, double-majoring in CS and EE, my sleep schedule is cooked. To motivate myself to wake up, I built an app that makes me get up and MOVE to dismiss my alarm

- Complete a wide variety of challenges to dismiss your alarm (pushups, walking, phone-shaking, stair-climbing, math, memory puzzles, etc)

- Record your own voice to hear as your alarm sound, to give yourself that morning motivation

- Import your own music to use as alarm sounds

- Enjoy 20+ built-in LOUD alarm sounds designed to get you up

You get LIFETIME unlimited usage for this price (99% discount)

As a solo student developer, I would appreciate an upvote on this post and a 5-star review on the app store.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsnooze-challenge-alarm/id6758871228

u/SnooMarzipans6759 — 18 days ago