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Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by ap0rnnstar »

msluyter wrote: post #20

And by "humiliate you of Facebook" they mean "spam your friends with messages that'll quickly cause all posts from the app to be hidden." (I invariably hide all posts from apps anyway.) And, honestly, I don't find "Mike was too weak willed to wake up this morning" to be at all humiliating, and certainly not something I think my friends would even care about. Perhaps if you could queue up any text you like, with somet…

LOL, definitely. I can see this in a future version for sure.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by ap0rnnstar »

huskyr wrote: post #15

Nice idea, but i guess that maybe the message might be a little too generic. Why not have a random message appearing every day to make it a little more fun for all your friends? E.g. * "Your friend John has probably been reading Hacker News all night and didn't get up on time this morning" * "Once again, your friend Suzanne could not get herself to hit the snooze button this morning. Please post stupid comments on th…

I like this a lot. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by graue »

Related article for those trying to rise early: http://zenhabits.net/how-i-became-early-riser/

I found the two most helpful things are to go outside within 10 minutes of waking up (even if it's really cold!) and to focus on going to bed 8-9 hours before I want to wake up, whether sleepy or not.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by damon_c »

Maybe it would be a good idea to appeal on facebook to the user's friends to text/call/Dm them to wake them up.

The people i know who need something like this would sleep through public, humiliation, fire... But if the phone was ringing repeatedly... and it was their actual friends that they might not have heard from in awhile, they would wake up for that. Maybe you could even make it easy (click here) to call them with one of those phone call APIs or something.

Probably best to encourage them to only use this when they really need to wake up. Or maybe it happens after the 3rd of so snooze...

I actually like this idea. Let me know if you want help.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by astine »

This is clever, but the problem that I at least usually deal with is not waking on time, but getting to bed at a reasonable hour, especially if I'm using social media before bed. A Facebook plugin which told the user to go to sleep and maybe told his friends that he/she should be in bed so they should stop talking with him would actually be pretty cool.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by novalis »

ehamberg wrote: post #14
ap0rnnstar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Standard Clock = Using 12 hours with am / pm. You can have it display military time if you like.

I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time? That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png

Sorry for the OC. I may have missed something here. I don't see how two checkboxes equal 4 bits of information by default. In this case you can have two checkboxes depending on 1 bit that can represent and/or count 2 values regardless the two checkboxes being complementary or contrary. Four bits can represent up to 16... Are you referencing "bit" for "piece" and also for "binary digit" ? Other ?

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by ap0rnnstar »

damon_c wrote: post #26

Maybe it would be a good idea to appeal on facebook to the user's friends to text/call/Dm them to wake them up. The people i know who need something like this would sleep through public, humiliation, fire... But if the phone was ringing repeatedly... and it was their actual friends that they might not have heard from in awhile, they would wake up for that. Maybe you could even make it easy (click here) to call them w…

Thanks for the feedback damon_c. A friend of mine had similar ideas. I'd love to add features like this. I can use all the help I can get. Can you shoot me an email abrahamagopian@gmail.com, or I can contact you.
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