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LUNA (YC S15) Is Hiring a Sr. Software Engineer in NYC

Luna is an Internet of Things company with a proprietary technology to help you fall asleep faster, elevate your sleep quality, and wake up at your highest energy level.Luna launched on Indiegogo few months ago ($1.4M+ in pre-orders and 6k+ units sold) and just graduated from YC S2015.We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer seeking an opportunity at a competitive, rewarding, and...

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Sure you can set triggers as you prefer and need. Everything is customizable to your routine. If you don't have a very clear pattern in your routine you might want to skip certain integrations and trigger events only for the moments when you actually fall asleep or wake up (which Luna can detect) vs. getting in or out of bed. And also set a time window for them.
Sleep IQ is definitely the most similar product in the market. We admire what they have done and believe we can take it a step further with more advanced technology and also a product that can fit any mattress regardless of the brand.

The integration with SmartThings is a good point and we hope to see more competitor products moving in this direction as the smart home ecosystem continues to grow. We just announced our integration with SmartThings recently and have already heard from many customers that want to see us integration with Wink next.

This would happen to me as well! I tried all the different heating blankets and covers and that was a recurring issue. We hope to solve this with sensors and software.
We hear you on the cooling feature and hope to integrate that in a v2. It's a huge technical challenge - and the reason why there is no other solution in the market that works. For now you can connect with your home thermostat, AC or fans so the can be set at the right temperature when you are in bed.
We hope so too! That is how Luna got started. I have problems to sleep and I used many other products before and encountered similar mechanical problems and I would just forget to use them. That is how we decided on a more seamless form factor that could 'live' with you forever and you wouldn't have to do anything.

Hope it helps! I will look forward to your user feedback in the future.

-M

Hi David,

We have heard about sleepyti.me from so many of our backers that use it or have used it in the past. It's an awesome and easy-to-use solution. Would love to chat 1-1 about sleep technology and what you have learned so far.

The way Luna works right now is through piezo sensors that pick up presence in bed, movement, heart and breathing rate and we use this information to determine your sleep phase quite more accurately than most of the products in the market - specially when compared to accelerometer-based solutions.

The detection of sleep phases is used for several of our features - from sleep tracking to the smart alarm.

Thanks for your feedback! M

Hi everyone! This is Matteo, co-founder of Luna. Happy to answer any questions and hear your feedback and comments about what we are building.