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Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by MaxGabriel »

dbla wrote: post #6

I'm a little bit confused. The title mentions birth control but the website is talking mostly about fertility. Is this a tool to help women get pregnant or prevent pregnancy?

Apparently both. On this page http://www.readytogroove.com/app/, it explains how you can learn which days you are or are not fertile.

Is this really a reliable birth control method though?

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by brown9-2 »

RobAley wrote: post #10
dbla wrote: post #6

I'm a little bit confused. The title mentions birth control but the website is talking mostly about fertility. Is this a tool to help women get pregnant or prevent pregnancy?

Both. It lets them know when they are likely to get pregnant, and when they're aren't. They can use that information to choose when to have unprotected sex (or protected) depending on what they want to happen.

This seems like a really bold claim to put on the back of a smartphone app.

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by mkaziz »

tvirelli wrote: post #7
tvirelli wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah! Would be great if it synced so that I could get a "Go" or "No Go" signal!

Maybe on the significant others device, it could have a sort of "defcon" system. To let me know that I should bring home chocolate and keep my opinions to myself!

^that would be a dream come true.

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by jaldoretta »

MaxGabriel wrote: post #11
dbla wrote: post #6

I'm a little bit confused. The title mentions birth control but the website is talking mostly about fertility. Is this a tool to help women get pregnant or prevent pregnancy?

Apparently both. On this page http://www.readytogroove.com/app/ , it explains how you can learn which days you are or are not fertile. Is this really a reliable birth control method though?

There haven't been a ton of studies done, but the ones that have been carried out all show a perfect-use effectiveness of over 99%. But that definitely depends on how careful users are.

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by ntaso »

Kudos to you, it's alway great so see people talking about natural birth control methods without mentioning God or religion in the same sentence. It's virtually impossible to find good resources about the sympto-thermal method in English without landing on a very Christian-oriented website.

But I'm wondering: What's the business model you have?

I'm asking, because I'm in the same space. Mostly in Germany, but I also have an app for the English-speaking population: http://mynfp.net/

It costs 5.99$ and it's certainly nothing I can live from alone. However, the app is just an "appendix" to my SaaS business which is the same thing, but bigger and better, which generates revenue to be sunstainable in the long term.

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by jaldoretta »

MaxGabriel wrote: post #11
dbla wrote: post #6

I'm a little bit confused. The title mentions birth control but the website is talking mostly about fertility. Is this a tool to help women get pregnant or prevent pregnancy?

Apparently both. On this page http://www.readytogroove.com/app/ , it explains how you can learn which days you are or are not fertile. Is this really a reliable birth control method though?

This is one of the most thorough studies that has been done: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314078

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by jaldoretta »

[deleted] wrote: post #16

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So when methods like the rhythm method are used, it's a pretty bad idea (because it predicts fertility). But the sympto-thermal method is based on scientifically-backed signs of fertility and allows women to pinpoint the fertile time instead of guessing. Here's a study about this particular method's effectiveness: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314078

Re: Show HN: Birth Control As A Service

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Post by jaldoretta »

brown9-2 wrote: post #12
RobAley wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both. It lets them know when they are likely to get pregnant, and when they're aren't. They can use that information to choose when to have unprotected sex (or protected) depending on what they want to happen.

This seems like a really bold claim to put on the back of a smartphone app.

So our app doesn't actually do any sort of predictions at this point. We just give users the tools to practice a highly-effective and natural method, and they do whatever they see fit with their data.
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