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Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by gverri »

Seems like a great app. Basically a timer with a heart rate tracker.

Since the most important thing in meditation is respiration, and being respiration deeply connected to your heart rate, I think it could really make a difference in peoples lives.

Would love to give it a try. There are plans for an Android version?

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by burningion »

gverri wrote: post #2

Seems like a great app. Basically a timer with a heart rate tracker. Since the most important thing in meditation is respiration, and being respiration deeply connected to your heart rate, I think it could really make a difference in peoples lives. Would love to give it a try. There are plans for an Android version?

Yes, I'm developing an Android version, but platform fragmentation is a bit scary. And yes, there's actually a breath bar in App to help you regulate your breathing. It animates in 5 second increments, allowing you to breath in steady patterns. At this point (two months of practice) I breath in 20 second increments (so four bars up and down).

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by burningion »

Feel free to ask me any questions, thanks for all the comments. I have a blog post coming up about how I developed the concept using an Arduino and Clojure to measure my meditation. You can read a bit about that over at my blog: http://www.kpkaiser.com/mindhack/hacking-meditation-with-the...

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by strozykowski »

burningion wrote: post #4
gverri wrote: post #2

Seems like a great app. Basically a timer with a heart rate tracker. Since the most important thing in meditation is respiration, and being respiration deeply connected to your heart rate, I think it could really make a difference in peoples lives. Would love to give it a try. There are plans for an Android version?

Yes, I'm developing an Android version, but platform fragmentation is a bit scary. And yes, there's actually a breath bar in App to help you regulate your breathing. It animates in 5 second increments, allowing you to breath in steady patterns. At this point (two months of practice) I breath in 20 second increments (so four bars up and down).

Is there anywhere that an interested Android user could sign up to get an email when the Android version is available?

I'd be happy to help beta test, and I'm sure other Android users would be interested in helping out as well.

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by fluidcruft »

strozykowski wrote: post #6
burningion wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm developing an Android version, but platform fragmentation is a bit scary. And yes, there's actually a breath bar in App to help you regulate your breathing. It animates in 5 second increments, allowing you to breath in steady patterns. At this point (two months of practice) I breath in 20 second increments (so four bars up and down).

Is there anywhere that an interested Android user could sign up to get an email when the Android version is available? I'd be happy to help beta test, and I'm sure other Android users would be interested in helping out as well.

Bingo. We hear about some new iOS app and are interested but we're Android users. I would gladly give the developer my email so they can ask me to revisit this later if/when they've got something/anything for Android, but I'm not going to remember to come back to this or heaven forbid poll/monitor it.

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by burningion »

strozykowski wrote: post #6
burningion wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm developing an Android version, but platform fragmentation is a bit scary. And yes, there's actually a breath bar in App to help you regulate your breathing. It animates in 5 second increments, allowing you to breath in steady patterns. At this point (two months of practice) I breath in 20 second increments (so four bars up and down).

Is there anywhere that an interested Android user could sign up to get an email when the Android version is available? I'd be happy to help beta test, and I'm sure other Android users would be interested in helping out as well.

Yep, woops, being a single founder of a company means you make dumb mistakes like this. I'll get one up right now.

Edit: Done. http://eepurl.com/t7DzL

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by gverri »

burningion wrote: post #8
strozykowski wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anywhere that an interested Android user could sign up to get an email when the Android version is available? I'd be happy to help beta test, and I'm sure other Android users would be interested in helping out as well.

Yep, woops, being a single founder of a company means you make dumb mistakes like this. I'll get one up right now. Edit: Done. http://eepurl.com/t7DzL

Subscribed!

Re: Show HN: I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

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Post by QuantumGuy »

burningion wrote: post #8
strozykowski wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anywhere that an interested Android user could sign up to get an email when the Android version is available? I'd be happy to help beta test, and I'm sure other Android users would be interested in helping out as well.

Yep, woops, being a single founder of a company means you make dumb mistakes like this. I'll get one up right now. Edit: Done. http://eepurl.com/t7DzL

I look forward to using your app
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