I’m probably not the target market, but why do you need an app to conduct a breathing exercise? I’m any case, the app looks polished.
Tutorial, catalog, ritual-starter, historical log, etc. To your point, it's not necessarily for everyone.
Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
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#22I like this idea and the design – the gamification is a good approach in my view.
A question for you: I have a relative who has been recovering from a pneumonectomy – is this a use case that you currently support or plan to support in the future (i.e. are the breathing exercises on the app similar to the ones prescribed for these patients)?
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#23Reminded me of a startup that makes "hugging-pillows" that expand/contract to regulate breathing during sleep as in synchronous breathing with a partner.
EDIT: found it: https://somnox.com/
They are quite expensive.
(Not affiliated)
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#24My brother made something similar as an art project: it's a circuit board with 2 LED digits. The numbers increase quickly on the inhale and slowly on the exhale so that it's in sync with 10 breaths per minute. It lures you into following it's cadence with your own breathing and you eventually get lightheaded because you're fucking with your blood gases.
" 10 breaths per second."
Sure hope you meant per minute!
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#25Looks very cool. Did you do the design yourself or use someone else?
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#26A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link:
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#27side note -- is it just me, or have Vimeo videos always been horrible as embeds? They take longer to load than YouTube, they take too long to fast-forward (click in the middle and wait 5 seconds before you see the video at that time location). And on this embeded video I couldn't even change the volume! It's frustrating me to the point that I just opted not to watch the video on this website :(
I don't want to say "it's just you" but the load circle was less than 1 second, and skipping ahead was instantaneous for me.
Maybe it's CDN location serving up the videos? I'm near Toronto. Also I checked your webpage and perhaps, by being in the business of video streaming, you're more attuned to these things than the average person? (P.S. your website is so elegant!)
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#28I like this idea and the design – the gamification is a good approach in my view. A question for you: I have a relative who has been recovering from a pneumonectomy – is this a use case that you currently support or plan to support in the future (i.e. are the breathing exercises on the app similar to the ones prescribed for these patients)?
Yep, it would definitely be a use case - so post-operative chest or abdominal surgery patients are often given breathing exercises. It's not yet a medical device, so can only be used in stress and anxiety ('wellness'). The basic functionality would be similar - breathing exercises, responsive visuals, encouragement, but hopefully we can add more specific measurements of lung function in the medical device version (track improvement / deterioration)
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#29WOW! This is really ground-breaking. Will the android version be supported as well?
Thank you! Working on it, hopefully at some point this year..
Filament & Oboe should match iOS performance in both realms: real time physically based sprite render, and polyphonic synth. Good Stuff, ideal for ai gurus teaching "pranayama sciences" ;)
Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#30A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link: https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/
Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products.
Fwiw