Clucky

Clucky is an iPhone alarm app that won't shut up until you complete a 'mission' — solving maths problems, playing memory tile games, doing push-ups, or using the camera and AI to hunt down objects of a specific colour. It layers on an 'Extra Loud Mode', a weekly 'Rooster Report' of your wake-up stats, and social 'Nest'/'Flock' groups so friends and family can be held accountable together.

The snooze button has quietly won the morning for most smartphone owners, and the founder is betting that friction — not a gentler chime — is what actually gets people out of bed. On-device camera and AI make physical, task-based wake-ups practical in a way a basic alarm never could.

Clucky was built by solo founder Adrian Angelo Abelarde for the specific problem of chronic snoozers who dismiss alarms half-asleep. The premise is refreshingly narrow: make turning off the alarm involved enough that you're genuinely awake by the time you succeed.

This is an early, pre-funding, solo-founder effort, so the case rests on focus rather than pedigree — a single builder shipping a live iOS product on a freemium model with a defined 'Clucky Pro' tier. The breadth of missions and the social accountability layer suggest a founder thinking about retention, not just the alarm itself.