I like the app but am offended by the idea of stars being made from cosmic dust. Can you add a divine intervention option?
Expect DLC for polytheists in time for Xmas.
Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
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Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
#132Hi 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.
Some feedback: on my mobile device, the website logo intersects with the LinkedIn icon. Other than that, I can see myself using this app from now on!
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm I do appreciate the complexity involved in implementing a max number of hours per day you can grow a star. But I think it may be worth it. The more you clamp down on ways to exploit the system the more player's will respect their achievement. The minimum of one hour is easy to circumvent. I wake up, turn off the alarm and then set another for 12 hours from now.. Theoretically if this is to track healthy sleeping…
"The more you clamp down on ways to exploit the system the more player's will respect their achievement." Those are very wise words and something that never crossed my mind. Master Sloth will definitely be making an appearance in some way and I've added it to the Trello board. I do plan on having some form of social interaction, probably something simple to start like sharing constellations you make to social media a…
Before you get ahead of yourself with 'pivoting' Nebula into a gamified social network dating app, let me just say that I like Nebula pretty much as it is, in large part due to its simplicity.
I like the narrow scope of Nebula, and would happily pay for the app to remove the ads, once you've ironed out some of the rough edges (you really need to remove the flashing indicators in the tutorial).
Naturally, if you want to transform the app into something else in the future, that's entirely your choice, and I will simply have to move on to something else that doesn't try to cram social networks down my throat.
Also, why care if a user wants to abuse the app to get more constellations? They are only ruining it for themselves, and adding rules and checks will only complicate your code.
Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
#134Hi 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.
Some feedback: on my mobile device, the website logo intersects with the LinkedIn icon. Other than that, I can see myself using this app from now on!
Thank you, I didn't notice that. I'll fix that soon
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#135Did you design the UI yourself? For me (and maybe most programmers) the hardest part of building an application is UI design. You did a really nice job.
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 under attribution licenses) are credited in the graphics credits section. I struggled a lot with the design and it was by far the most time consuming part of the app.
Nice! Where did you find the icons? Been looking for some for my healthcare startup website. Thaks!
Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
#136Did you design the UI yourself? For me (and maybe most programmers) the hardest part of building an application is UI design. You did a really nice job.
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 under attribution licenses) are credited in the graphics credits section. I struggled a lot with the design and it was by far the most time consuming part of the app.
Nice! Where did you find the icons? Been looking for some for my healthcare startup website. Thanks!
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats! This looks really interesting. One thing I would appreciate clarity on: I'd prefer not to send data to ad networks, if I pay for the ad free version, will that not only prevent the display of ads but also any associated tracking?
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 premium is enabled, AdMob is not touched in any way at any stage of the application's lifecycle. I asked whether or not this initialize call I was worried about actually does anything with respect to tracking and the only answer I've gotten…
Awesome, thanks for responding so well to this request.
Re: Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep
#138Hi 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.
Fantastic idea!
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#139I'm so glad to start seeing more and more apps come out on Android first. What a big change from a couple of years ago.
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#140Is it possible to make it start automatically? I like that generally I don't think about my alarm on my phone, I just go to sleep and it goes off the next day.