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It is difficult to concentrate and ensure productivity when working on work individually. In addition, individuals are more prone to procrastination without someone monitoring them. The long and tedious school work also makes students burn out and lose motivation overtime. Having a source of encouragement and someone to support them will greatly boost their efficiency and lighten their stress load.
The increasing consumption of instantly gratifying social media content (i.e. TikTok videos, YouTube shorts) has also made it more difficult for people to focus on doing their work as it does not provide them the instant gratification and dopamine shot they get from social media. It is not uncommon for people to even develop an addiction over these social media content and so making them unable to do their school work or sit down and study for extended periods.
What makes it worse is that those who are addicted to social media are often too ashamed to admit it and seek help from their friends/family. Because of this, they would try to help themselves by deleting social media or setting screen time timers. However, this proves to be ineffective to some as they would end up reinstalling their social media again or bypassing their screen timers since they don’t have anyone to monitor them. With our app, users no longer have to feel shame for reaching out as everyone on the app shares the same problem and are all there to help each other overcome their distractions.
Unlike other similar apps (StickK, Beeminder to name a few) in the market, STARdy is specifically catered to students who are looking to accomplish their academic goals. Users will be able to enjoy the benefit of having an accountability partner who shares a similar major and year of study thus making them easier to connect with each other. On top of that, STARdy is a lot more flexible in that it does not require users to donate money unlike other apps, which is more friendly for students’ pockets.
Vision: We hope to make an app that enables students to have an accountability partner to motivate and assist them to remain on track in their academics. Our proposed app aims to monitor and support students who desire to complete their tasks/goals but struggles to do so due to social media addiction and distractions. This app uses peer pressure positively to reduce procrastination and empower students to conquer their distractions.
Scope of Project:
STARdy is a productivity app aimed to tackle a specific issue interfering with university students’ productivity – procrastination. STARdy does this by matching users with an accountability partner who would help keep them accountable for their goals when teachers/parents no longer do, especially now that they are university students. Our classroom feature emulates that of a standard classroom, where we assign a task for users to submit evidence of their work, which will then be verified by their accountability partner. Users themselves also act as accountability partners themselves. The app utilizes peer influence positively and a gamified extension to improve user experience and productivity.
Features of STARdy:
- User Authentication and Profile Set Up
- Dashboard page including user's profile page, TodoList, Notes and encouragement quote generator features
- Leaderboard where users are ranked according to their level of XPs
- Users page for users to be matched with other users with similar major and year of study FocusSession feature with:
- STARdychat feature for users to communicate with their accountability partner
- STARdyroom feature for users to submit tasks and evidence of completing their goals
- Focus Timer
- XPs which are rewards and incentive for users to complete their goals