Looks cool! I'm really curious, though: What is the “Standard Clock” checkbox? (What is a standard clock?)
Standard Clock = Using 12 hours with am / pm. You can have it display military time if you like.
Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
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Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#12Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app.
Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet.
And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after 7 days straight of successful wake ups, the user sends a FB message that is congratulatory. After a month, the F message contains a summary of how well he/she did.
So, in other words, provide both thhe useful analytics and the ability to over share :)
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#13Small gray text on a white background, really, Apple?
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#14Looks cool! I'm really curious, though: What is the “Standard Clock” checkbox? (What is a standard clock?)
Standard Clock = Using 12 hours with am / pm. You can have it display military time if you like.
I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time?
That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#15Nice idea, but i guess that maybe the message might be a little too generic. Why not have a random message appearing every day to make it a little more fun for all your friends?
E.g.
* "Your friend John has probably been reading Hacker News all night and didn't get up on time this morning"
* "Once again, your friend Suzanne could not get herself to hit the snooze button this morning. Please post stupid comments on this post."
* "Bob is in dreamland right now instead of on his work. Please call his boss and tell him."
;)
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#16Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app. Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet. And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after…
I really like this. In the end I definitely want BetterMe to focus on positive reinforcement rather than negative ones.
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Standard Clock = Using 12 hours with am / pm. You can have it display military time if you like.
I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time? That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png
Definitely more efficient. You are right, I will change it.
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#18I hate links to pages that cause an application to launch on my computer. I wish apple would not do that. I feel like I'm getting rickrolled every time I click on a link about an app.
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#19Small gray text on a white background, really, Apple? http://contrastrebellion.com/
this is such a great site
Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook
#20And by "humiliate you of Facebook" they mean "spam your friends with messages that'll quickly cause all posts from the app to be hidden." (I invariably hide all posts from apps anyway.) And, honestly, I don't find "Mike was too weak willed to wake up this morning" to be at all humiliating, and certainly not something I think my friends would even care about. Perhaps if you could queue up any text you like, with something truly embarrassing, like revealing your deep dark love for Justin Bieber or something, that might be more useful and interesting.