Most 19-year-olds have difficulty balancing their time between school, friends and extra-curriculars. But Cal Poly 2nd year Dylan Brodsky has to balance being the CEO of his company, too. Over the past year, Brodsky has spent all his free time creating, developing and fine-tuning his company: Spritely.
Brodsky said the idea for Spritely came after he had a hard time waking up for an 8 A.M. class every morning. “There’s no one out there who, 100 percent of the mornings, just springs out of bed, full of energy, with a feeling of a great start to their day,” Brodsky noticed. And so, the company began. Brodsky and his team, made up of all Cal Poly students, were able to work with San Luis Obispo HotHouse, which provided office space, supplies, resources and mentors to make Spritely the best product it could be. After making adjustments from interviewing what possible customers wanted and creating five different models, Spritely was ready.
Spritely is a new, innovative alarm clock with reliable features that ensure you’ll get out of bed every morning. A thin sensor strip goes between your box spring and your mattress, only turning the alarm off when you get out of bed and turning it back on when you get back in. But there’s more to Spritely than just the reliable alarm clock.
“There’s MyFitnessPay to track how you eat, Apple Watch and FitBit to track your steps, but no one really tracks their sleep,” said Brodsky. Spritely also connects via Bluetooth to its app on smartphones. This app is able to report simple sleeping statistics such as time in bed, time asleep, time in deep sleep and even gives you a comprehensive sleep score out of 100 on how well you’re sleeping. “You get asked in the morning, ‘How’d you sleep last night?’ and you say, ‘Good,’ but you don’t actually know. No one can see or feel how they are sleeping.” After a few weeks of tracking your sleep, Spritely provides custom sleep tips on how to improve your sleep.
The app also provides options for different tunes to wake up to. It not only connects to Spotify, SoundCloud, iTunes and Google Play, but also has it's own drop-down menu of tones correlating with moods, such as “I Hate Mondays.” The alarm only goes off during your lightest sleep cycle and increases volume gradually, so it feels like a natural awakening, or as Brodsky called it, “A gentle awakening that won’t take no for an answer.”
On January 19th, Spritely began its first crowd-funding campaign, offering deals to its first supporters. If Spritely is something you would find helpful, click here and join the support for Spritely.
