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Santoka Alarm
Wake up to haiku — free-verse poems read aloud each morning
Most alarms jolt you awake. Santoka Alarm greets you with a haiku. Every morning, a poem by Taneda Santoka (1882–1940) — Japan's wandering free-verse haiku master — is read aloud as your alarm. His poems about walking, water, grass, and solitude are strangely perfect for the first moment of your day. • 701 haiku, one for each morning • Natural voice narration • Built with AlarmKit — works as a real alarm, even in silent mode • Buy once, no subscription Wake up gently. Start with poetry.
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I'm Yujiro, a PM in Tokyo who builds indie apps on the side.
Santoka Alarm started from a simple frustration: every alarm sound is designed to stress you into waking up. I wondered — what if the first thing you heard each day was a poem instead?
Taneda Santoka was a wandering monk-poet who wrote 701 free-verse haiku about grass, water, and walking alone. His words are short enough to catch half-asleep, and deep enough to stay with you all day.
Fun fact from analyzing all 701 poems: "grass" appears in 52 of them — more than any other word. And he mentions "water" more often than "sake," despite his reputation as a drinker.
Technical notes: built with SwiftUI + AlarmKit (so it fires reliably even in silent mode), voices generated with ElevenLabs.
It's a one-time purchase — no subscription. I'd love to hear: what's the first sound you'd *want* to hear in the morning?
Woke up to a quiet voice reading about water and grass, and somehow it made my morning feel less rushed. Love that it actually fires in silent mode too.
waking up to a quiet haiku about grass and water actually felt really nice, way better than the usual jolt. the narration sounds calm and human, not robotic.
Love the Santoka idea, super charming way to start the day. One suggestion: let users pick a theme like rain, autumn, or dawn, and the haiku selection filters to match, so the poem feels tied to the season or my mood instead of being random.
love this idea honestly, haiku mornings sound way better than my usual screech. one thing i'd suggest is letting users pick a favorite poet or even upload their own short poem to be read occasionally, kind of like a custom haiku slot for when santoka's mood isn't quite right for the day.
About Santoka Alarm on Product Hunt
“Wake up to haiku — free-verse poems read aloud each morning”
Santoka Alarm was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #151 on the daily leaderboard. Most alarms jolt you awake. Santoka Alarm greets you with a haiku. Every morning, a poem by Taneda Santoka (1882–1940) — Japan's wandering free-verse haiku master — is read aloud as your alarm. His poems about walking, water, grass, and solitude are strangely perfect for the first moment of your day. • 701 haiku, one for each morning • Natural voice narration • Built with AlarmKit — works as a real alarm, even in silent mode • Buy once, no subscription Wake up gently. Start with poetry.
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