Risly

i really needed it, how are you marketing it?

I built Risly because I was losing the first hour of every day to the snooze button. I tried the usual alarm apps and kept beating them: dismiss from the lock screen, half asleep, back under the duvet, no memory of it an hour later. So the rule here is blunt. There is no snooze and no dismiss. The alarm stops when you finish a mission, and the missions are things you cannot do lying down: scan an object on the other side of the room, do push-ups while the camera counts your reps, scan a QR code you taped to the bathroom mirror. By the time it goes quiet, you are standing up. The part that took the longest was making it actually ring. It runs on Apple's AlarmKit, so silent mode, a Focus schedule and a locked screen do not save you. That is the one thing that has to never fail, and it is why the app needs iOS 26. Happy to answer anything about the missions, the difficulty settings, or how the streak decides you missed a morning.

Building on AlarmKit is the detail that makes this credible, and I would say it louder. Every alarm app claims it will wake you, and most of them quietly lose to silent mode or a Focus schedule. Naming the framework is the proof. The feature I would want next is already sitting in the data you collect. You track every wake-up and every miss. If you also knew roughly when the phone went quiet the night before, you could show people what actually predicts a miss: usually how late they started rather than how hard the mission was. Right now the app can tell someone they failed. The more useful version tells them they failed on the four nights they started late, and that is a pattern someone can act on without you having to make any claims. One practical worry: push-ups counted by the camera and scanning an object across the room both assume the light is on. What happens at 5 am in a dark room with someone asleep next to you? A dark-friendly mission set would widen this a lot. Requiring iOS 26 will cost you installs for a while. It is worth stating on the page why that is non-negotiable, because "we would rather not ring at all than ring unreliably" is a good answer and people will respect it.

That a really great idea. Nice!

this is incredible, let's see

That a really great idea. Nice!

This is such a great way to quickly fire up your brain, haha! It’d be even better if the tasks could be customized with more variety.

i really needed it, how are you marketing it?

This is an interesting approach to solving a common problem. The product looks straightforward to use, which is a big plus. I’d be interested to know what feature users have found most valuable so far.