Text Reminders Are Easy to Ignore: How I Built a Voice AI Sidekick App with Flut

<p>Every developer I know has built at least one "productivity" side project for themselves. Mine was a water reminder app.</p> <p>Sounds trivial. It was more interesting than I

<p>I have a confession: I'm a productivity app addict.</p> <p>Notion, Todoist, Things, TickTick, Bear, Obsidian — I've tried them all. And every single one failed me in the same

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I wear hearing aids and built this app partly because I needed it myself. Standard iPhone reminders buzz and flash. If you're across the room,

<p>I've been running <a href="https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenClaw</a> as my personal AI assistant for a while — text-based, the usual way. It

<p>Most productivity apps are built by teams of 20, funded by millions in venture capital, and still manage to feel like they were designed by a committee that's never actually

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>“I will not touch my phone for 30 minutes” often lasts until the next unconscious unlock.</p> <p>I built an Android-only “Don’t Touch Mode” for Yominder. The user chooses a

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2>