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Re: Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

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phames wrote: post #2

After a lot of iterative development and rigorous clinical testing, we yesterday released Sleepio - an automated, online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) course for poor sleep. Would much appreciate the wise views of HN, positive and negative!

Tried to view it at college but there's no sound on the PC - any chance of subtitles/text only?

Re: Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

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splatzone wrote: post #3
phames wrote: post #2

After a lot of iterative development and rigorous clinical testing, we yesterday released Sleepio - an automated, online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) course for poor sleep. Would much appreciate the wise views of HN, positive and negative!

Tried to view it at college but there's no sound on the PC - any chance of subtitles/text only?

Good point. We actually have support for subtitles - but our first goal was to mimic a more human interaction and see how it helped adherence rates. So far since users make time to sit down and follow the programme each week this doesn't seem to have been a major problem, but I agree for trying it out the requirement for sound is limiting.

Re: Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

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Post by splatzone »

phames wrote: post #5
splatzone wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried to view it at college but there's no sound on the PC - any chance of subtitles/text only?

Good point. We actually have support for subtitles - but our first goal was to mimic a more human interaction and see how it helped adherence rates. So far since users make time to sit down and follow the programme each week this doesn't seem to have been a major problem, but I agree for trying it out the requirement for sound is limiting.

Awesome. I have to say, this is very impressive. Is there a free trial or anything available? I would love to try it out but, alas, I'm a skint student.

Especially since it's the start of the academic year I can imagine this going down well with my student friends - maybe some kind of discount would make it more enticing.

Either way, this looks awesome and clearly the result of a lot of hard work. The Boots partnership makes it all the more exciting. Congratulations guys :)

Re: Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

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Post by phames »

splatzone wrote: post #7
phames wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. We actually have support for subtitles - but our first goal was to mimic a more human interaction and see how it helped adherence rates. So far since users make time to sit down and follow the programme each week this doesn't seem to have been a major problem, but I agree for trying it out the requirement for sound is limiting.

Awesome. I have to say, this is very impressive. Is there a free trial or anything available? I would love to try it out but, alas, I'm a skint student. Especially since it's the start of the academic year I can imagine this going down well with my student friends - maybe some kind of discount would make it more enticing. Either way, this looks awesome and clearly the result of a lot of hard work. The Boots partnersh…

Thanks so much! We did have a free trial, but we're trying it without...and since we're so close to launch we need to coordinate with what Boots is offering. Out of interest what sort of price do you think you (and your friends) would expect to pay for this, based on what you've seen?
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