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Chill out, listen to some rain

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Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by ZanderEarth32 »

Very nice. I love the rain and use the White Noise app set on Rain on my phone every night to help me sleep.

Just one thing, I am not sure how dropping my name and email will contribute to more features? I know you say you're not going to spam me, but it seems like you're just collecting emails to selective email me other things I might not be interested in.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#4

Post by andrewfelix »

ZanderEarth32 wrote: post #3

Very nice. I love the rain and use the White Noise app set on Rain on my phone every night to help me sleep. Just one thing, I am not sure how dropping my name and email will contribute to more features? I know you say you're not going to spam me, but it seems like you're just collecting emails to selective email me other things I might not be interested in.

Hey, I didn't create the site. But a friend of mine did. He did this in his spare time. The email thing I assume is a way of gauging support and maintaining interest. I think he wants to be able to tell people about added audio etc.

I'll get him to comment on it further.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by Difwif »

davidism wrote: post #2

Is the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?

In my opinion rainymood is much better than this. After listening to raining.fm it became quite obvious that it's on a very short repetitive loop. Rainymood is a much longer loop and actual feels like you have your window open on a rainy day.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by ZanderEarth32 »

andrewfelix wrote: post #4
ZanderEarth32 wrote: post #3

Very nice. I love the rain and use the White Noise app set on Rain on my phone every night to help me sleep. Just one thing, I am not sure how dropping my name and email will contribute to more features? I know you say you're not going to spam me, but it seems like you're just collecting emails to selective email me other things I might not be interested in.

Hey, I didn't create the site. But a friend of mine did. He did this in his spare time. The email thing I assume is a way of gauging support and maintaining interest. I think he wants to be able to tell people about added audio etc. I'll get him to comment on it further.

Gotcha, that makes sense and is legitimate. Sometimes I get so jaded about people collecting my name and email for no reason that I forget that there are perfectly okay reasons to request it.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#10

Post by sealo »

Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site.

Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :)

@Difwif yes you are correct the loop is short currently, the reason I did this is obviously to keep bandwidth down in this initial period and to just qualify the idea,

@davidism, If people show interest I will be adding longer audio and also different varieties of rain, hard rain, thunderstorms, light rain, rain on water, rain on tin roof.. you get the idea aka i'm rain crazy

Any suggestions/criticisms are welcome, thanks guys - Neil

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