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Comment #6827859
Sleepio -- London, UK We're a digital sleep improvement program, clinically proven to help overcome long term poor sleep. Hiring: CTO, Product Lead, Bus dev. http://www.sleepio.com…
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Comment #6655245
London / SF + + + PocketProf (www.thepocketprof.com) + + + CTO, Product, Business Development We take the data from your personal tracking apps and devices and turn it into behavio…
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Comment #6178595
Hurray for Bytemark! :)
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Comment #6178572
Nice idea. But I'm either being stupid or it's barfing - have completed all fields but getting an 'all fields required' error.
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Comment #4894806
A true legend. RIP.
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Comment #4865207
They did take objective measures, via polysomnography. It's one of the novel aspects of this study. Interesting that perceived difficulty getting to sleep after gaming was greater …
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Comment #4864811
Yes blue light inhibits melatonin release, although to my knowledge there is still very little reliable research on in-situ, naturalistic use of devices on sleep. Agreed that this …
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Comment #4864786
I agree it is a small sample - although not uncommon for psychology studies. I'm going to see if Dr Kyle (who wrote the post) can hop on here to give us his view.
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Comment #4847572
Looks great! Lovely idea. What feedback have you got about pricing so far?
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Comment #4510806
Thanks so much! Sounds fascinating - what's your service called? Would love to see how you've approached that challenge - I know for us it took a lot of iterations!
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Comment #4509363
We decided 'Sleepio' way before .io domains were available!
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Comment #4506538
Thanks for all the constructive comments guys. For those of you who would like to try Sleepio, we've set up a discount code for the first 100 to use it: HN-STOLE-MY-SLEEP will give…
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Comment #4506405
None - it's all recorded...er, I mean magic.
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Comment #4505939
Nice idea - we would need to connect the headline explaining the programme with the Prof more clearly, but that's pretty easy. Will work it up, thanks!
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Comment #4505740
Thanks, but I actually think we need to be even clearer. It should be obvious what to do without reading anything. And if high-functioning HN users are making that error, your aver…
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Comment #4505660
We built the main sessions in Flash first because it was the quickest way to discover what it was that we were building! So the Flash version has been around longest and is the mos…
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Comment #4505577
Thanks neya! Very kind. Although...we have an HTML5 version running concurrently; try it on iPad...
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Comment #4505274
Thanks for taking the time to look at it and give such thorough feedback. The name thing is the one thing that always seems to delight people; it's indicative of the care/attention…
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Comment #4505058
Yep peer referral is the most powerful driver - you've echoed the view of pretty much every sleep sufferer I've interviewed! The Boots partnership was in part to try to build that …
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Comment #4505045
You've inadvertantly highlighted a UX failing of ours - that's not actually a sign up form! We ask for your first name so you can meet The Prof; another thing we're wrestling with,…
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Comment #4505035
Yes, we'll need an umbrella name. But right now it's more important for it to be immediately obvious what the problem is that we can help with, since we rely on self-diagnosis, (th…