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Re:Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while ... by rocketsloth on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:34AM (#15766106)
Reinforcing good bedtime habits is a really interesting idea. Even if that can't guarantee a person is sleeping, it can force people to set their phones down for the night which is something at least I could definitely use. Maybe something like if a user moves their phone past a certain time, the star is destroyed. Going to explore the points option and a few others. Thank you for your feedback
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Re:Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while ... by wpietri on Thursday November 23, 2017 @02:35PM (#15767319)
I'm glad to hear it. I've built an automated lighting system to encourage good sleep habits [1], which has helped a lot. But I'd still like to do better. Maybe the star is bigger and brighter with good sleep, and ends up a brown dwarf if you don't get enough?

[1] https://github.com/wpietri/sunrise

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Re:Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while ... by rocketsloth on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:18PM (#15768887)
That's so cool! A lot of people swear by the sunshine alarm clocks and I'm definitely gonna have to try it out one of these days
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Re:Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while ... by friendzis on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:43AM (#15769963)
In my area summertime traffic is rather relaxed without significantly expressed traffic spikes, so journey time is almost independent from departure time. This summer I had liberty to come to work at any (reasonable) time. I spent large part of this summer without an alarm clock (had one safeguard alarm that always fired at work or during commute).

If I wanted to stay late, I could. I just went to bed when I felt sleepy. I would wake up naturally at varying times. Interestingly, I think I had one of the most productive periods, I felt well rested even though my sleeping pattern was greatly messed up. Waking up at 4am for 3 hour trip to work was not torture. had to do the same last week and was literally a zombie.

Furthermore I am one those people who occasionally wake up at night. I could keep laying in bed for those 15 minutes or I can check something (idle miner, bullshit feed) on my phone and crash after 15 minutes. Such options really depend on the person, I guess.

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