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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by dangrossman on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:53AM (#2015497)
Last week WakeMate was part of an AppSumo bundle. I was excited thinking they were finally available and bought the bundle.

Confused as to how I was going to get the device without being asked for my address, I e-mail AppSumo and am told to buy one at wakemate.com. What the bundle will include is not the pictured WakeMate, but 3 months of premium service for it.

Problem? WakeMate doesn't exist yet, I can't buy one, and neither does a premium service for it.

My money was refunded and WakeMate was pulled from the bundle on the site.

I don't hold a high opinion of WakeMate anymore, and probably shouldn't have fallen for the deal. There are wristbands that track your sleep and your fitness now from companies that actually ship things when you pay them.

[Edit: Should note below that WakeMate says they never approved this bundle. Blame AppSumo, perhaps.]

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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by spydertennis on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:02AM (#2015512)
I'm a co-founder of WakeMate and this is the first I'm hearing of an AppSumo bundle involving us. Also as of right now there is no premium service. All analytics services are currently free.
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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by dangrossman on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:38AM (#2015559)
That's strange...

"Healthy Holidays Bundle Part 3: Bigger Brain" on December 13th was WakeMate and FitBrains.

http://i.imgur.com/AGMW8.png

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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by spydertennis on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:45AM (#2015572)
I can tell you that was never approved by us. Not sure what was going on there but that might be why it was pulled.
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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by noahkagan on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:41AM (#2016308)
Hey Arun.

Shot you an email to see where the disconnect happened.

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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by spydertennis on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:15PM (#2018086)
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I spoke with Noah from AppSumo and this was WakeMate's fault. I apologize if this cast any negative light on AppSumo because it was 100% undeserved.

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Re:WakeMate Blog - In Production by noahkagan on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:24AM (#2016255)
Morning everyone, Noah from http://AppSumo.com here.

We love the WakeMate product and pulled them because the service they were offering was not public as expected.

Here's our emails confirming WakeMate wanted to be in the bundle: http://cl.ly/3p3u3T3I3e3p3e231c31

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