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Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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Just wanted to mention (maybe someone finds this interesting) another "sleep gamification" app Ukrainians made – http://wakeapp.com.ua/index_en.html Every time you snooze – you donate to the Army, thus money goes to the people who make sure you sleep in piece. I find it quite nice :)

beautiful app, well done :)

Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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Game dev here. Should you include some sort of maximum amount of sleep per day to prevent people from setting alarms to grow their stars when they aren't sleeping?

Hmm not everyone sleeps the same amount of time. I have a friend for whom a healthy night's sleep is 10+ hours, with lots of daytime naps.

Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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is this so that you have to go to the bathroom in the morning so badly that you wake up naturally?

I don't feel this urge at all, I just wake up smoothly and then after 5min or so "oh I could go to the toilet, okay". I guess it's been a known trick for centuries, at least I've read somewhere it was a pretty popular strategy among indigenous folks. But hey who am I to say, I cannot even wake up with an alarm clock!

What an innovative technique hahaha!

Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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Nice idea but not executed to it's full potential. I use an alarm for waking up. I expect a fast, usable ui to be able to set the time fast and options like recurring alarms,weekly scheduled alarms etc. I wouldn't replace my vendor's slick, feature full without ads app for something that is not as least as good.

Very fair, this is just version 1.0 and I have lots of plans for things I think might persuade you soon, but for now I totally understand. I'll be back

Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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Hi! Thanks so much for this very detailed feedback and glad you like the testimonials :). intro/onboarding feedback: I agree with you and will look at ways to cut it down both in length and quality - I just removed the "Try tapping" and changed it to tap cause I agree with you (it will be pushed out next update) - you're 100% correct on the sound previews too, I implemented the listener as an onChanged rather than on…

You could reduce download size by a form of lazy loading, download the files on demand/request in the app, so ship the code without most of the media? If you're paying for the download bandwidth that might help too, as many will get the app and never use it. You could use IAP to sell new media packs including high-quality.

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 advice :)

Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

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Hi HN, I just wanted to add that I'm looking for any kind of feedback on the app. I've been working on it since graduating in may and released it a couple of days ago.

The first screen I see on the page has a challenge that at least 8% of males (me included) can't solve. Matching colors is difficult to make accessible so it's no surprise that the example is one I couldn't solve, being partially green blind.
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