Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye

Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye by Caligula on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @07:36PM (#960316)

I worked at a sleep company up until 2008 and there are a lot of startups and big sleep companies getting into lowcost devices that a customer would own or rent instead of going into a sleep lab. They would do more diagnosis or pre-diagnosis rather than just wakeup timing but I think some had that feature. I know there is a watch that does this.

One tip I would do if I were them were to contact all those huge sleep lab companies and try to get them interested. Insurance covered prescribed factory sleep labs drive the industry.

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Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye by flooha on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:46PM (#960508)

I think this is pretty significant advice. My daughter broke her foot one day before getting on a plane to Barcelona, where we planned on doing a lot of swimming, I had a waterproof cast cover over-nighted and they sent two. One for me and a free one for the foot doctor. The product worked so well, it literally saved our vacation and I couldn't say enough good things to the doctor when we got back. I'm sure giving the free sample to the doctor was a win for them, especially considering the doctor had never heard of the product.

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