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Yes. By the way XHack hackathon was really awesome. Best host ever.
Cool! I showed off ViaMeme there
Oh cool man. This was originally Talk To The Future. I just refined the UI and got a new domain.
Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.
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Thank you. Yeah the reason that I've made this available for free currently is because I thought if I started out charging I would be fixed with that business model, and I don't even yet know what this can be used for other than my own cases. So I just decided to release it as beta and learn from people. Please do try out and let me know if you have any feedback :) And about translation, did you mean transcription? o…
Right, transcription. I think Twilio has speech-to-text?
Yes that would not be difficult, it will be added soon.
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lift iPhone up to ear tudum! Remind me to call my mom at 3pm tomorrow. dudum I'll remind youuu Maybe you just need an iPhone 4S.
> Maybe you just need an iPhone 4S. Indeed. I got an Android device in the fall and have regretted not waiting for the 4S. A site like this at least fills the gap. I also like being able to type in my instructions on a laptop, not sure if Siri has that kind of interface.
You can't set up Siri via the mac yet, but after you've said whatever you wanted to Siri, if it's wrong you can tap on it and edit it. That's slower than if it understood you properly, but still quicker than the overall process without Siri...
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#54Apparently I'm already using this for something slightly different than the intended purpose and loving it. This may be an excellent tool for me to send myself reminders for tasks I'm doing later in the day. I often write a task list in one moment, then forget it in the midst of the day's work. It's the use of the "Call yourself after" section being a timer, rather than a clock that makes that easy to think about. I'…
Great to hear that! Can you elaborate on how it being a timer rather than a clock makes it easy to think about? That might be very useful feedback for me. Thanks!
When I go to sleep, I usually end up thinking about how long I'm going to be out (usually not enough) so I'd just set the timer for 6 hours from now rather than for 6:00 AM. That's the way my brain works anyway. The best feature on my phone's alarm clock is that it says how far in the future the alarm will go of once it's set. That's also saved me a couple of times when I accidentally set the alarm for the next day.
During the day, it's not too hard to do the math (if I need to know something at 3:00 and it's 11:30, for example).
I haven't tested this yet, but I also imagine myself just setting it two hours ahead, for a time I'd likely need the reminder, but am pretty sure I'd have completely forgotten. As an example, my first message was set for 5 minutes in the future. Then I realized I was late for a meeting and got a call. I had completely forgotten that I had set the set message until I answered.
Also, I noticed that the message started to quickly that I missed the first part as I answered. A second pause or possibly a bumper "This is a message you left on WakeMyself" would help avoid that.
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Great to hear that! Can you elaborate on how it being a timer rather than a clock makes it easy to think about? That might be very useful feedback for me. Thanks!
When I go to sleep, I usually end up thinking about how long I'm going to be out (usually not enough) so I'd just set the timer for 6 hours from now rather than for 6:00 AM. That's the way my brain works anyway. The best feature on my phone's alarm clock is that it says how far in the future the alarm will go of once it's set. That's also saved me a couple of times when I accidentally set the alarm for the next day.…
Thanks for the feedback! And that totally makes sense. I will add that header message.
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#57Great idea! My only complaint - I copied your URL without the "www." and thought the site was broken, but apparently it's just a subdomain issue. Other than that I like the clean design and usability. Also I imagine you did the hours until time instead of time itself because of tricky time zone issues, but if you had both options it'd be even easier to use. Good luck.
I really wish we could do away with the whole "www." convention. It had a time and place, but not anymore.
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#58This is really interesting. It promises to help bridge the gap between conscious periods, while allowing us to capture bits of our unconscious and dream state musings.
Exactly! I actually had these two separate ideas, and they came together while I was trying to build the first idea. What was awesome was I was actually able to capture my dream on my first usage. You should try too! Would love feedback :)
I am going to try it in the next few days!
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#59Great idea! My only complaint - I copied your URL without the "www." and thought the site was broken, but apparently it's just a subdomain issue. Other than that I like the clean design and usability. Also I imagine you did the hours until time instead of time itself because of tricky time zone issues, but if you had both options it'd be even easier to use. Good luck.
Just fixed the www problem. Turns out I erased aname record and that was causing the problem (I was just following the tutorial by Heroku guys!!)
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How does your app do text-to-speech, if you don't mind me asking? The reason for building this as a service is because I thought there's more to this than just a single player alarm system if enough people want to use this. I just wanted to test it out and see enough people will like this. Hope this makes sense? :)
The phone app only replays a recorded message from yourself. I have one that runs on a laptop that does text to speech (it plays my music getting gradually louder with the time spoken every minute along with any other messages you want read out (either every minute or at specific times)). I didn't have much experience with text to speech before this so I just used the open source stuff I knew about (espeak and the mb…
Yeah I agree that privacy is a valid issue. I will think about it some more. Thank you for the feedback!