This looks amazing.
The only suggestion I have is to make it paid, instead of free so I can maintain low anxiety that you're not going to sell my data, or show me ads in the middle of box breathing.
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#62Designer here— This whole experience is really killer. Fantastic work, truly. I was not sure what to expect when it requested microphone access, but the way you've done it is really clever. The interactive tutorial is really cool as well. The visuals, also, are different and fun. Never seen anything quite like this. Really great work. I'm going to share this with some friends.
Amazing, thanks so much for the feedback!
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#63This looks great! I found a bug on Safari on my iPhone where the sidebar download button leads you to the TestFlight beta download instead of the actual app. I'm glad the wellness space is being explored more and more with technology.
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#64Very interesting concept and neat visuals. Before I dive in, I'm a trained vocalist and breathing is core concept #1. My feedback may be geared towards our line of work, but I believe breathing mastery is analogous across domains. Here are my initial thoughts:
Using the microphone and camera makes sense. When the camera required calibration, my excitement grew. Then my anticipation gave way to disappointment when the bar had no sensitivity to silent breathing, nor 'shoulder breathing.' I'm now struggling to know what the camera is needed for - ideally you want to see if someone is shrugging their shoulders instead of filling their diaphragm, but the camera positioning isn't suited for that - nor did my experimentation reveal the app's sensitivity to that input.
Further, while one can 'cancel out' the audio stimulus from the audio input in software, I wonder if there's interference. I found it takes a significantly 'loud' breathing to get the bar to move along with me - and even still, the bar shifts before I'm ready to shift. In some sense, I guess that's the intended behavior change - however, not all loud breathing is good breathing and leaving us without feedback that we should change our breath tempo doesn't help us get better.
This overall is a wonderful idea - and would be perfectly fine (really better in my opinion) without the request for camera and microphone access.
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#65WOW! This is really ground-breaking. Will the android version be supported as well?
Seconding the request for an android app!
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#66The word Lungy grosses me out. Something visceral. I imagine viewing a human organ or the chest being opened. Sorry, but I thought it might help you. If people agree, say something below. If not, I am an oddity and can be ignored.
I could see that. The overstressed people in this space probably want something more fluffy and meditatively-eastern-psychology sounding.
More breathy and airy than organ-y and meaty. Probably already 900 apps called "Breathe" though
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#67Looks extremely cool, but I wish this was a web app. I can't use it because I don't have an iOS device and I also think it would be useful on desktop, to take a break, as an alternative to checking HN, twitter ...
Thanks! Yep, I would love for it to also be a web app one day, I think definitely would be possible now with WebGPU. Will hopefully be able to release an Android version this year..
awesome. Looking forward to trying this on Android!
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#68Beautiful!
I don't have an iPhone, but just from watching the demo videos I am impressed by the design and UX. Good luck!
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#69Can't test your app since I can't breathe
Edit: Health is a gray topic of internet. I wouldn't promote it like "developed by doctors". Medical field has different concerns as you knew. You developed the app as a developer.
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#70Am I alone in my overall skepticism around breathing exercises for healthy adults (sounds like you were working with COVID patients, so maybe more appropriate for them)? My understanding is that the research is far from conclusive, and "breathe more" seems like too generic advice to really apply in any specific sense.
Just screams, "Placebo!" to me.
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