Overview

Instadreams is an alarm clock whose snooze button says Record dream. You get your nine minutes; the price is a few mumbled sentences about what you dreamt. By morning the app has transcribed the recording, cleaned it into readable prose, given it a title and painted a cover image keyed to the dream's own details.

The Problem

Dreams evaporate within minutes of waking. Dream journal apps fail because a half-asleep person at 4am will not open an app and type. The habit never forms, so the journal stays empty. I have wanted this product since 2012, when I bought the domain and built the first version as a Telegram bot. It had about one and a half real users. The capture step was the problem, and it took speech-to-text, language models and image models to make it buildable.

The Solution

• Alarm-first capture: a real alarm clock on Apple AlarmKit that breaks through Silent mode and Focus, with voice as the only input
• Saved on device the instant recording stops, before any network request
• AI pipeline: transcription, faithful cleanup, title, one cover image per dream
• Free and unlimited capture, with paid comics (3 to 8 panel pages from a dream) and original alarm melodies
• Private by default: no feed, no interpretation, no sleep tracking, no training on your content

Tech Stack

Flutter with native Swift and Kotlin alarm modules, Phoenix backend. Heading to the App Store and Google Play.

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Instadreams: An Alarm Clock That Catches Your Dreams Before They Fade.