Re:Show HN: Breathing Tips – interactive breathing exercises
by evphn on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:26AM
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Hi! I worked on this as a side project because I wanted to test the new web based 3D engine - https://www.babylonjs.com/. It quickly grew into something I actually wanted to do for a while - a free, easy to use, and beautifully visualized breathing techniques app. Recently I moved the project to this new domain - https://breathing.tips and refactored a bit so that it's super easy to add new tips with minimal HTML skills. I’ve been sharing it with people on reddit and I'm getting pretty positive feedback so far, so I decided to share it here as well. Let me know what you like (or not). Here's what I think is cool about it:
- Free & open source
- Minimalistic and easy to use. No apps, no logins, no charts
- Looks great on both mobile and desktop
The most popular tips, it seems, are the anxiety and relaxation ones. What other technique would you like to see?
Re:Show HN: Breathing Tips – interactive breathing exercises
by evphn on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:25PM
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Thanks for trying it out. You need to click the ball to start the exercise. It seems this is a UX problem I need to get around, as you’re the second person mentioning that.
Re:Show HN: Breathing Tips – interactive breathing exercises
by evphn on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:46AM
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Thanks for the suggestion, Wim Hof is definitely on my todo list. You're right about the size of lungs and deepness of breath. It is different based on gender, age and physical size and there is no one size fits all solution.
Re:Show HN: Breathing Tips – interactive breathing exercises
by desertraven on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:22PM
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Looks great! Just curious - I often hear the benefits of breathing exercises, are they scientifically backed? Any studies finding correlation between breathing exercises and wellbeing?
- Free & open source
- Minimalistic and easy to use. No apps, no logins, no charts
- Looks great on both mobile and desktop
The most popular tips, it seems, are the anxiety and relaxation ones. What other technique would you like to see?
May also help to give a guide on how deeply to breathe. My first go I started to get lightheaded and had to tone it back a notch hah.
I wonder too about the size of my lungs/body vs someone more petite. Wouldn’t that impact the most effective rhythm?
Would be really neat to have a Wim Hof method trainer as a possible future addition.
1. https://github.com/evpgh/breathing.tips