Rohan Chaubey

Naptick AI - Al sleep companion that helps fall asleep without struggle

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Naptick is a smart bedside AI sleep companion designed for founders, professionals, light sleepers, and anyone struggling with nighttime stress or doomscrolling. It combines circadian light therapy, 1000+ adaptive soundscapes, room condition intelligence, app-locking, and an on-device AI sleep coach to help users fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed. Unlike passive sleep trackers, Naptick is built phone-free by design and actively helps improve sleep before the night begins.

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Joshua cooper

How long does the adaptive soundscapes playlist take to learn user preferences and adjust automatically?


Shilpi Goel

@joshua_cooper2 Naptick starts adapting from the very first few sessions, but the experience becomes noticeably more personalised over time as it learns your patterns, preferences, routines, and responses to different soundscapes.

The goal is for it to feel more responsive and intuitive over time - exactly like a sleep companion that evolves with you.

Sairam N

This actually looks really usefulllllllll 😭
My sleep schedule is so bad these days, so an AI companion that helps you sleep without scrolling or wihtout listening to music for hours on your phone sounds like a good idea.

Swathy Karamchedu

@sairam_n Thank you! We really appreciate the feedback. Naptick is designed to reduce doomscrolling and our reliance on phones at night. In many ways, it’s about taking our nights back from screens that have gradually taken over our bedtime routines.
Naptick helps you unwind naturally through adaptive soundscapes, sleep-supportive light signals, voice interactions, personalized sleep coaching, and AI-generated moodscapes, all without needing to stay on your screen.

Elijah Smith

Add a sleep streak with no phone in bed leaderboard  just for yourself or optionally with friends. Gamifying phone free nights could be surprisingly powerful.

Vinaya Kansal

@elijah_smith6 love this, and it is actually something we are leaning into. We have a feature in our roadmap called Community Circles, small accountability groups where you share streaks for phone free nights and wind down consistency with a few friends. Weekly recaps rather than live leaderboards, because live competition right before bed felt counterproductive to the whole point.

One thing that makes the phone free streak easier than people expect, Naptick is voice first by design. Lights, alarms, journaling, soundscapes, do not disturb, all by voice. The bedside device replaces most of the reasons people reach for their phone in bed in the first place, so the streak almost enforces itself.

Solo first, or shared with friends? Curious which would actually unlock this for you.

Nossa Iyamu

as a founder who closes the laptop at 2am way too often, the app-locking feature alone is worth it. love that the AI runs on-device -- privacy matters when something is literally in your bedroom. nice launch

Vinaya Kansal

@nossa_iyamu Founder to founder, thank you, this means a lot.

The nap lock is genuinely one of my favorite features. Voice command or app trigger, and the bedside device holds the line so you do not have to. 2am you cannot out-argue 11pm you anymore, which is the whole point.

One small clarification on the AI for accuracy. The agents run in the cloud right now, not on-device. The privacy story is still strong though, no camera, only environmental sensors (temp, CO2, humidity, VOCs, light), and voice is button activated, so the room is not being streamed anywhere unless you summon Naptick. Edge inference is something we are working on.

Grateful for the support.

Rahul Mehta

Late night debugging sessions have completely wrecked my sleep schedule and every tracker I've used just tells me I slept badly without actually doing anything about it. Naptick being phone-free by design is the detail that stands out. Most sleep tech just gives you more screen time before bed which defeats the whole point,

Vinaya Kansal

@rahul_mehta20 You just wrote the pitch better than I do. The 'diagnostic without intervention' gap is exactly why we built Naptick. Naptick actually does something about it, runs your wind down, dims lights, plays soundscapes, locks the phone away, watches the room overnight, adjusts night to night based on what worked.
Late-night coding has a real biological cost too, sympathetic nervous system stays activated 60 to 90 minutes after you close the laptop. Most of what Naptick does is shorten that gap so you actually fall asleep instead of lying there relitigating the bug.

George Sostak

Congrats on the launch @anubhab_goel1 ! Does it tells night stories? Can it be a companion for kids to fall asleep?

Anubhab Goel

@gsostak Thank you so much! And yes - bedtime stories and calming voice experiences are definitely a direction we’re excited about exploring.

We do think Naptick can become a comforting sleep companion for kids as well, especially through gentle soundscapes, calming interactions, and screen-free bedtime routines that help them wind down naturally.

Nithish A

This is great. For someone who scrolls on my phone before I sleep this is actually super useful.

Vinaya Kansal

@nithish_a1 Thank you! You are literally the user we designed Naptick around. Phone scrolling in bed is not a willpower problem, it is a design problem, the device is built to capture you. The fix is removing every reason your hand reaches for it.

Naptick handles the lights, alarm, soundscapes, Spotify, journaling, wind down, all by voice. Phone has no job in the bedroom anymore.

What is the thing that usually pulls you in, social feeds, news, YouTube, or something else? Trying to make sure we cover every trigger.

Ferdi Sigona

I currently use a Lumie lamp and find that using gradually dimming or brightening light really helps with falling in and out of sleep respectively. This seems like an obvious next step from that with the soundtracks, which tbf I currently use my phone for. Does it also include guided meditations or breath work sessions it can recommend based on what you might be saying during journaling or even as an alternative to the regular sounds?

Swathy Karamchedu

@ferdi_sigona Love that you're already a Lumie user! You'll feel right at home with Naptick! And yes, guided meditations and breathwork sessions are very much part of whats available and the AI assistant can be prompted to play those. We're also building out contextual recommendations, so the AI can suggest sessions based on what you've been journaling about. Would love to hear what kinds of breathwork you currently use!

Lately been seeing many AI hardware products launching on Product Hunt. Congrats on the launch. Naptick is solving sleep crisis of the 21st century in a very novel way! Its really interesting.
Vinaya Kansal

@hamza_afzal_butt Thank you, this means a lot. The AI hardware wave is real, and our bet is that sleep is one of the few categories where putting the intelligence in the room actually changes the outcome. Appreciate the support!

Vishesh Goel

Does it also find patterns related to my daily schedule? And help me optimize my sleep on days I sleep late?

Shilpi Goel

@vishesh_goel2 Thanks for showing interest in Naptick! and Yes - Naptick already adapts based on your sleep routines, timing patterns, habits, and recovery needs over time. So on days you sleep late, travel, work longer hours, or have an irregular schedule, the AI sleep coach can adjust soundscapes, lighting, and sleep routines accordingly to help you unwind and recover better instead of treating every night the same way.