Hello, I'm working on a smart alarm

Hi all,

My name is Xiwen. After following the podcast for a while I've decided to sign up. Thank you @csallen and guests for the fantastic stories! I will start to introduce myself first and then tell you about the project I'm currently working on.

I'm 33 years old living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I like to describe myself to be very pragmatic and as a result I've ended up being a cloud engineer professionally but like to think of myself being a full stack engineer.
As of January 2019 I'm a freelancer doing contracting work. It's going pretty good. The first quarter was a bit bumpy with time management, invoicing, tax filings etc but it's going very well now.
Besides freelancing I often get ideas and some of them are worth pursuing in turning them into projects and hopefully evolving into a product. I often work in the evenings and weekends on these projects.
Recently this idea is a smart alarm inspired by cold showers.

Last March I started to think on how to bring "Cold showers" effect into the bedroom. I find it hard to drag myself from my bed to the shower and take a (cold) shower. However I like to drink water after waking up. I also noticed my gym has few water coolers. So adding up all these observations I came up with a smart alarm that will serve an ice cold glass of water in the morning on the night stand. Besides the cold water effect I'm planning to make the device collect environmental data like temperature, humidity, noise levels, etc. On the long run I want to use the data and give hints to the user to improve the sleeping environment.

The vision is to help people wake up energised and on-time. That would enable them to get more out of their days.

Shortly after settling down on the idea I sat down and created a short survey and shared it with friends and their friends (meetup's and parties) : https://forms.gle/kveWkmFfmoapJZma7

The results are pretty positive. That fuelled my drive and today I'm almost done with a working prototype.

What do you think of this idea? I would appreciate it a lot if you would also complete the survey mentioned above because I think entrepreneurs would definitely benefit from being able to wake up earlier and work more on our dreams :)