I'm up for brainstorming features. I'm not building a meditation app, but I'm a big fan of meditation, especially metta meditation ;-) Email is in profile
Thanks! Reached out :)
I left my tech job to build a meditation app
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Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#72Perhaps we don't need an app to meditate? Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?
>Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?
add ties to cloud , and wearables, and 24x7 tracking, and some motivational quote notifications to keep the user more connected. and then sell data to advertisers.
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#73Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meditation is physiologically different from sleep and each confers benefits that the other does not.
He was pranking you.
I know but I replied just so on the off chance that a reader might've thought they're both the same, which I've thought before actually, so just wanted to clear up that misconception.
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#75Ignore the naysayers in this thread. They have never experienced assisted meditation before. The biggest impact in my life (outside of having kids) was when I discovered Qi-gong and the power of assisted meditation. The thing that clicked the most for me was having calm soothing meditation music to help enter the trance state of consciousness. My mind tends to wander and focusing on the sound helped deliver clear tho…
Meditation isn't a "trance state". There are recurring refutations of this throughout Buddhist literature over the millenia. The answer to a conditioned existence is not more conditioning. Yes, states of refined pleasure can be used as springboards for insight, so-called "jhanas" but they are by no means the dominant method of practice. Seeing through conditioned reality doesn't require any trance or altered state at…
> Qigong is its own thing
Qigong exercises are very much like guided meditation, almost like kata in martial arts. You can gain the benefits of Qigong as meditation without buying into the energy work as anything other than a metaphor.
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#76I personally think that the meditation app space is under explored. Or rather the dominant players have their business model (a hefty monthly subscription) dictating their app design. So rather than a coaching model, think of a simple tool like a gong or a timer. Much like the original "Sleep Cycle" app, only for mediation (combing a timer with the feedback you can collect via the sensors of a phone).
Just use a timer?
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#77Author here, looks like my site is down! Here's the archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210706220321/https://troyshu.c...
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#78I personally think that the meditation app space is under explored. Or rather the dominant players have their business model (a hefty monthly subscription) dictating their app design. So rather than a coaching model, think of a simple tool like a gong or a timer. Much like the original "Sleep Cycle" app, only for mediation (combing a timer with the feedback you can collect via the sensors of a phone).
Just use a timer?
I don't know exactly what design to pursue.
But Sleep Cycle is an alarm clock app that wakes you up at the point where you are most awake in your sleep cycle, at a given interval (say 6.45 - 7.15). It measures where you are in your sleep cycle by having you put your phone under your pillow and then use the accelerometer of the phone.
Do something similar for meditation and you will have a substantially different product.
Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been helping an organization that hosts retreats (yoga, qi-gong, and other types) and I still think a lot of these practices still suffer from the New Age era, and it still ripples to these days because some people read those funny names and bind it to "oh that's just some crazy people/cult/weird/hippies non-sense". So I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't drop the names completely and call them for what it is…
I agree, meditation would benefit a lot from a no-nonsense approach and wording. Then again in my experience a lot of practitioners of meditation and related techniques use those New Age terms not for a lack of better terminology but because they actually intend to convey the New Age meaning (whatever that is exactly). So I'm not sure they would agree with you to drop those names.
Which new age terms give you trouble?