Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
by blasdel on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:40PM
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Holy Fucking Shit Yes
It took me about 15 seconds from the initial onload to typing my PayPal password, and I'm normally just seething with deliberative-yuppie-purchasing-angst. My normal minimum conversion time is at least an hour of research and a week of wall-clock time.
If you can hack my purchasing process so effectively, I'm pretty confident that you'll do well by my sleep cycle. Bravo!
Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
by spydertennis on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:26PM
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We're definitely open to the idea of letting people play with communicating to our device.
Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
by fa on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:44PM
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I've been aiming to write a Rayleigh random number generator-driven alarm app for my iTouch (to do random-phasic sleep, e.g., countdown 20+X minutes, X drawn from a Rayleigh(20) distribution). If something like that could integrate with your app, that could be really cool. Crowdsourced sleep research :)
Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
by brandon on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @03:36AM
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It's so easy to do, in fact, that I had already paid before I realized that the device isn't scheduled to ship until 3 days after my daughter is scheduled to ship.
I bet my graphs are going to be REALLY interesting.
Re:Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
by BigDamnDeal on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:27PM
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The Fitbit looked very fun, but the site didn't mention an alarm function. I'm already envisioning a long slog toward convergence, because some day I want my phone to do calorie-counting and smart-alarming. After all, I already keep it near me all day and night...
It's a lot like Glastonbury ticketing. Deposits in autumn, full payment in January. This is extra profitable because in January many people are short on cash post-christmas and either can not or choose not to pay the full amount. You get to keep the non-refundable deposit and then sell the ticket/product again to another person.
As an aside, any idea on how hackable the Wakemate is? Presumably other devices could talk to it over bluetooth, eg a homemade arduino based alarm clock. Will the bluetooth protocol and data format used be published?