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rocketsloth

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    Comment #15826121

    That's an interesting idea. I've added it to the Trello board of ideas I'm considering for recurring alarms and appreciate your suggestion.

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    Comment #15826112

    Hey sorry for responding so late. Thanks for sharing those libraries, I'll take a look at both. The one i used before was actually quite tough to find and I remember it wasn't a ve…

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    Comment #15826087

    If I understand correctly though, I think that suggestion would defeat the purpose of the stroop test that this method is using to trick people, cause the whole idea is that the wo…

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    Comment #15825945

    Very fair, I picked it cause of all the dismiss methods it's the most visually appealing since the others aren't really based on interacting with the UI much. I'm working on some a…

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    Comment #15783093

    I only ever tested the parallax library on a very early build of the app which consumed far less ram overall just cause the app wasn't finished yet, so it's hard to give an exact a…

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    Comment #15778867

    thanks very much

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    Comment #15778863

    I'm considering a few options to give more freedom with the alarm (such as repeating and multiple alarms), but I'm working on making sure they integrate with the overall design and…

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    Comment #15778842

    this may be the best comment of the thread

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    Comment #15778835

    I've removed the flashing circles in the next build cause I 100% agree and I'd like to clarify that I don't have any intention of pivoting with Nebula cause I really like keeping t…

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    Comment #15776729

    https://material.io/icons/ is great, all open source and you can edit their vectors to make your own variations https://thenounproject.com/ is also awesome, a lot of variety https:…

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    Comment #15771297

    Thank you, I didn't notice that. I'll fix that soon

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    Comment #15769790

    I've looked in to the question and I've changed it so that even the MobileAds SDK is only initialized if premium is not active when the application is first created. This way, if p…

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    Comment #15769399

    I agree that sleep is a complicated thing and that bedtime routines are vital to overall healthy sleep habits. I think you're right and that reinforcing good sleep scheduling is th…

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    Comment #15769396

    I've heard really great things about them

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    Comment #15769395

    Thank you, the template I used had these nice phone graphics and I thought they were just generic phones because I wasn't paying attention. Going to fix that now.

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    Comment #15769382

    Thank you! I have gotten a lot of awesome suggestions about the idea of reinforcing bedtime and helping promote good sleep habits and am looking in to a few options for that in fut…

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    Comment #15769218

    I did do it by myself and I really appreciate you saying that. I used/modified a few icons and pictures that I found online though and their awesome creators (who released them und…

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    Comment #15768932

    That's very kind of you, thank you :). I didn't think anyone would notice the testimonials.

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    Comment #15768927

    Thanks so much really appreciate your support! I experimented with an ios style parallax effect on the background stars but found that the library really used a lot of memory so I …

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    Comment #15768887

    That's so cool! A lot of people swear by the sunshine alarm clocks and I'm definitely gonna have to try it out one of these days

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    Comment #15768472

    Hey really sorry about that, there are a variety of dismissal methods you can choose from including shake dismissal, qr scan, barcode scan and a simple stop button as well as this …

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    Comment #15768304

    it should be available now :)

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    Comment #15768119

    Yeah I think this sounds like the eventual goal. And media packs are interesting, but I'll have to provide many, high quality sleep engine sounds to justify that. Thanks for your a…

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    Comment #15768065

    thank you!