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Ask HN: Is it wise to create pre-launch/coming soon page for future product?

I've been working on a product (a web simulation game of sorts) for some time now, and I have a soft deadline that I set for myself to launch it. That date will be between 1st and 15th of June. I'm wondering, is it smart to create some kind of coming soon page, where people can leave their mail and be notified about it?Also, if that would be the move, how much would you reveal on that 'coming...

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Re:Firefox is getting language translation on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:02AM (#21321909)
We're in the same boat. Luckily, I've found an extension that does a decent job, similar to Chrome's in-page translation.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/translate-who...

I was looking for something cheap with as much packed features as I can get and settled on Huawei Band Pro 2 (https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/band2). You can get it for 70 bucks, and it tracks your sleep, heart rate and even has built in GPS if you want to jog or cycle.
I believe I'm one of the "short sleepers" they mention in the article. I've bought wirstband mostly to track my sleep patterns. Even though article says that devices like fitbit are not accurate enough in tracking different phases of sleep, my goal was largley to see how much time do I spend sleeping. In the last four months, I average out at 6,1hrs.

90% of the time I will wake up before the alarm and will sleep the same amount of time over the weekends, when I usually don't go to bed as early as I do during the working part of the week. The thing that I constantly think about is - could I benefit from those 2 extra hours to get to that magic number 8? I would really like to try it, but I keep waking up after 6 hrs. :)

I've started to think it's because of not so healthy lifestile - no exerxice, sub optimal diet, irregular bed time. Is it possible that my poor lifestyle results in me waking up after only 6 hrs of sleep and while feeling OK (it became normal to me), I could feel better if I slept longer? That was always something I pondered about. How to know if you really are a short sleeper, or you're just a person that gets by with sleeping less than recommended while not feeling as good as they could if they slept longer?

Ask HN: How did you start exercising after being completely out of shape?

I'm a software developer in my late twenties and I'm overweight, anxious and am currently doing nothing about it. It's been like that for last 4 years, and I need to do something about it.I was wondering if you could give me some advice or your stories how you've started exercising given that you've been in similar situation as I am currently.I've googled some of the programs but it all seems...

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